Sep 25
Bonaire, post three: Around Bonaire, Topside
Here are a few pictures from around the island. Bonaire is a Dutch posession, so that language is spoken here, along with Spanish and Papiemento, which is a patois.
Here are the Cargill salt works down south. The salt piles look like pyramids! You’ll see this as you approach the salt pier.
Instead of squirrels, Bonarie has lizards, I think mostly iguanas and skinks.
While in a surface interval at the north end, I saw the Island’s classic pink Flamingos in the abandoned Salina Frans salt pan at the fishing village beyond the BOPEC oil transshipment facility:
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Gorgeous colors on those lizards (or the one in three poses;not sure which)! Curious, though: in the second photo of lizards, there’s one that looks brown instead. Is that a different type or a female or juvenile of the same? From what I can see, they have the same head, leg, body structure so I’m thinking same type of lizard, but that could be not so in real life.
I don’t know the true answer. I’m pretty sure those are the same lizards, either females, or subordinate males, or perhaps they’re just molting. I used to have a pet iguana, and it would always turn a drab color before sloughing off its skin. Many lizards also exhibit sexual dimorphism, with the males having extra colors and markings so that they have a grand and impressive appearance.