This is the last beautiful dawn.


Coffee and Breakfast is on. It is help yourself day, It is Father's Day so I have the make Joel breakfast too. Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!

Happy Birthday to Yana!
Good Luck today to Jake and Linda on your move!

Good morning Eileen, and to everyone else out there today. Happy father's day to all our BT dads. Hope you all have a great day. Annie B.

Mandy on the wall waiting to go.

Have some coffee.

It the last dawn from this location. Shortly, we will have a new beach to observe our dawns.

Took 3 grandchildren to their first Rodeo last night. Today we have our 3 children and six grandchildren over for lunch and a swim.

Thanks I have a large cup, I need to maintain body warmth. Two tanker today in 50 degree water.

I am at a loss for words to describe my thoughts on the last day of the cams where they are. No matter how nice and interesting the new locations will be, they will never be the old location. No more Smokey, or land shark, or Richter family or a host of others who showed up for our entertainment. Anyways here's a salute to all of them, SALUTE.

At the same time, I look forward to our new friends. I'm not sure what we'll do in the mean time.

I think I'll be suffering a lot of PBD in the next days... Not being able to get my daily shot of Bonaire...

I ditto the salute made by Cecil. SALUTE

Martin

Savour the view while we can folks. Cecil and Martin, you both made me well up there. Annie B.

Good Morning Annie, Cecil, and Martin and John! John, sounds like a wonderful day for you.
Definately is a sad day for the cams. Wonderful memories.

I am going out, it is a beautiful day for a walk. I will come back to see the scenery today.

Lookie who's here!!!!

Still there, and chatting, and larking about by the looks of it



And fabulous sunshine


Hope the move goes ok Jake and Linda. Thinking of you and wishing you well. I loved your house and am saying my own bye bye to it right now

Blimey I caught the last one!!!!!!

They've gone !!!!!!

Well done Jenni.

I think this is the last visitor.

This is a sad day... What can I say??? Best of luck with the move of the cams and with the move of your furniture...

I hope the move is going well.

Bye bye Linda, Jake, Yana and Bas. I wish you the very best of luck in your new house, and I wish you all the very best of everything for the future. Annie B.

Good morning everyone! Last day is so sad but I wish you all luck in your new homes, Richters, cams and look forward to seeing a bit more of Bon in a couple of weeks on the new cams!
Some other last shots
Last boat
Last wave on the south cam

Hello everybody,
I missed the last pic ! :o(
I think I recognized Niki and Bod at the gate :o)
A new life is now starting, as Cecil and Martin say : SALUTE

OH!!!!! Deep sigh! Gonna miss all the comings and goings of the Richter family and critters....Good luck you guys! Thanks for sharing your family and view with us for so long!!!! You are the best....
Happy Birthday Yana! What a big day for you!
New sunsets and friends are on our horizon! Old ones will be savored in our memories forever!
Thanks for letting me be apart of such a wonderful community!

Who said there will be no sunset tonight ?
I saved a good collection of nice panos Annie and I did, so I decided to post one every evening till the cams are working again.
I am back to work tomorrow :o( so I am saying goodnight now. No, no Annie, I won't talk tonight gal ;o)
Have a nice evening and a nighty night. See you back tomorrow for breakfast.

Night night Martine. I shall have an early night too. Annie B.

I saved these waves from last night.

Good evening BT-buddies!

Finally made it to this page and feel a bit saddened Bye Bye old views.

Happy Birthday to Yana!! Hope you got lots of nice presents today

Good luck with the move(s) Jake, Linda, Bas, Yana and all the dogs, cat and bird.

Thanks Martine for providing a nice sunset pano and Annie for the last flicky of the old view!

Happy birthday Yana !!!! Wish your new home full of blessings and good times. Thank you for catching the last moments of the webcams everyone.

Nighty Night. See you for coffee nice and early

Bye Jake and Linda,
Happy Birthday Yana,
Hi Bas,
I think that was Hari in the front-of-gate shot.
Hi Hari.

We'll miss you all and look forward to the new web cam site.

Mary W

On this night exactly once year ago. Sweet dreams everyone. Annie B.

Good Night All! In a couple of days, I will have been a BT'er for 2 years. Wow!

Beautiful Annie B!

Good night everyone...thanks for the great waves and sunset flicky's Annie!

And thank you Martine for the pano...time for some archive work I guess

Hi BWC-less BT-ers!

I want to ditto the Salute ; ditto!!!

Saying goodbye is not one of my favourite things, come to think of it , I am not very good at it either

Anyway: Goodbye to the streetcam , it has been fun watching all the Richters and friends and visitors and Critters at the gate.

Goodbye to the beachcams,I am going to miss the view.

3 weeks no sunny Bonaire to be seen

I don't know if I can miss it that long.

Well , long live the Archives.



sjossss

OOOOOPS!!

Belated happy birthday YANA

sjossss

Goodbye old web cams!!! WAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LaDonna

Goodbye old Cams!!!

I ditto the SALUTE!!!!

Happy Belated Birthday Yana!!!!

Where are Carol and Kay?

This is such a sad day with lots of happy memories. I too will miss seeing the Richter's on the cam, especially the kids. I so enjoyed seeing them grow. Happy Belated Birthday Yana!!!!
I look forward to seeing the views from the cams in their new homes.

Thanks to the Richter family for sharing their time and family moments on Bonaire with the webcams...talk about a reality show !May moving day be an easy and safe one for you. We look forward to the new site and thank the new sponsers, will patronize them as soon as we hit Bonaire shores..gonna miss seeing the doggies and kitty cat on web cam...maybe we will see other " wildlife " at the Bongos bar ( smile )

Hi, guys! We just returned home last nite. Great, great trip. I feel "guilty" as we did not make it to the street cam for the final shots....Joe and I were mesmerized in the pool at the house we were staying at playing with a four foot iguana for hours in the water with us....My theory is that of the old '50's film "The Swimmer" with Burt Lancaster.....this Iguana (Iggy, of course) hits a different pool each day or several in one day and ours was his stop on that Saturday. He was in the pool for over 18 hours on our first day. He's come up for air on occasion and then grip the tile on the side of the pool and sun himself for a while. So much fun to swim with him and watch him for hours! Relaxing, too. He would swim between Joe's legs at times, too....funny. I took some shots which I can post later on.

I do feel bad that we were not there to help pull the plug believe me! Niki said they waited a whole five minutes for us and then proceeded on! LOL. I feel flattered they waited for us that long and I do feel bad they did have to wait at all. Niki and Bob have some great shots of the moment they will probably (hopefully!) share with all of us when they return home next week.

Sad day, indeed. Thanks, Jake, Linda, Yana, Bas, Grendel, Mindy and the rest of the critters for sharing your lives with us...I know you are sighing a sigh of relieve a little bit as you will now have a little more privacy in your lives. You have been the best and we all truly do appreciate what you have sacrificed and put up with for the past few years. You all earned huge gold stars for living in a fishbowl....literally!

Belated Happy Birthday to Yana and a belated Happy Father's Day to you, Jake! Thanks for the memories.....Carole and Joe

Here's how it looked that morning as we went ahead and pulled the plug without Carole and Joe, lolling about in their pool instead.

Oh FCOL, why does it have to go down to such horrible quality to stay under 50K? The original photo is perfectly sharp.

Thanks, Niki! It looks great to us!! Thanks for taking time to share it with us....I loved looking at the "originals" the night we all were together at the house eating Bobbyjan's ribs! Yummmm. YOu have loads of beautiful shots. Loved the melting ice pics, too...very imaginative and artistic! Back to "reality" now....work.......ugh. My first week back was sooo stressful...a killer week in my office...oneof the busiest for incoming Workers Comp claims at the County...they all "knew" I was going to be away and waited for my return...the long holiday weekend and a full moon plus Venus and her rings didn't help! LOL. Ayo. Carole

Try again, Nik.

Is this one clearer?

After that, Linda and Jake obliterated the painted sign on the wall next to the front door. We all took the brush to it, in fact!

An end of an era Niki, brings tears to my eyes...

Much, much crisper pics, this time, Niki! Thanks for making the adjustments for all of us to enjoy. It is sad, indeed.....it was part of our lives for quite a long time. A new beginning for the Richters as well as the BT'ers out here.

I wonder how long folks will continue to drop by the "old" house looking for the cams while the "new" guy from BOPEC is in there??!! LOL. I hope he has a sense of humor, at least!

That's the Richter's old neighbor, Harrie, right? The kids look cute, too. Ayo. Carole

PS I popped in my CD ROM of my edited vacation shots at work today and let the "slide show" run across my monitor/pc while I was working on some other stuff (paper stuff) at my desk....loved looking at the pics of Bonaire. Wish we were there right now! I realized (too late, of course) that I did not take a pic of you and Bob this time...duh!!! I'll get you guys next year, OK? cb

We were having too much fun, eating Bobbejan's and then floating in the pool, to take any pictures! :-)