KLEIN CURACAO

After spending two months on Bonaire, resting, playing tennis, socializing, and diving, it was time to rise sails again.
We sailed toward Curacao with two days stop on Klein Curacao. It is a small island, 1 1/2 miles long and 1/2 mile wide, so flat, anchoring on west side one can see the waves splashing against the rocks on east side. White sandy beach stretches along the west side, the rest of the island is limestone, chewed up by the sea.
Klein Curacao would not be seeing by sailors until a close approach, but for a picturesque lighthouse and a large rusty shipwreck.
Except for a few palm trees, planned by the beach, when the weekend restaurant was still operating, a few lonely thorny bushes and some ground cover are resisting raggedy weather conditions.
Before oil refineries were built on Curacao, Klein Curacao supplemented the big brother's island economy with the phosphate mines. A couple of buildings, that miners lived in then, are now falling apart.

Miners' village

On weekends the boats from Curacao bring tourists to enjoy the beach and splash in a turquoise water. By Sunday afternoon Klein Curacao is quiet again.