Finally Online!

Finally Online! 

Sorry to all of you who have been eagerly waiting for news about the Caribbean Edition. In good Caribbean style things did not go as we had planned. This is the first time we have any access to the internet. On the 28th of November, our first training day, the internet provider at Bonaire had problems. This meant that there was no internet available in a wide circle around the Plaza Resort. Where in The Netherlands everybody panics when there is no internet, the people at Bonaire are a lot more relaxed. Any questions about the internet connection where answered with: “They will fix it this afternoon, maybe tonight or maybe tomorrow.” Apparently not having access to the internet is not such a big deal here.

On the first rally day, the 29th of November, the internet connection was finally fixed while we were out at sea. Of course we were happy to hear that we could finally share our stories and photos with the rest of the world. As soon as we attached the boats to the pontoon our media crew spurted to their rooms to see if it was working. Unfortunately, the only thing they found at their rooms was that the power was out on a large part of the island. So even though they had gotten the internet working again, the problem had now gotten even bigger. Now we did not have anything except the 1,5 hours of battery time on the laptops. Luckily this was a big problem even for the people of Bonaire so around 23.30 all the lights lit up again.

Our internet connection is very slow but we are doing the best we can to get some footage online.