Hey Cindy,

Glad you put the photo on this board....The locals on this board are super! They will be out on the look out for it.

This message board has super locals typing on it....
I Love this board....Cool team.... They will be your police.

All the Best,
Ruth

Thank you Ruth. I have calmed down since my posts yesterday and have gone for the "Que sera sera" attitude. Thanks for all your support you guys.

Is burglaries that bad on the island... We went to Bonaire last year diving. We wouldn't do shore dives because thieves would steal everything in your truck. If the windows and doors were locked they would break the windows of your rental truck. It didn't matter what you had in your truck....nothing or something. So we only did boat dives. And if we every went anywhere on the island we left our windows down and our door unlocks....and nothing in the truck.
But for you to be hit that many times. I looked on the map were you live...It seems to be a populated area. I can't image someone not seeing something.
Hope the bike and boat are found...I am sure the camera would be hard to get back. But you need the transportation on the island.
Keep the thread going ....ask all to look at the photo...someone may find the boat....
All the Best,
Ruth

I had some garden implements that I kept outside, and I've just found all of them gone. Yes, petty theft is a problem here - though it is in most places these days. When I was a child we rarely ever locked our doors and quite valuable stuf was just left outdoors. I used a bicycle most of the time and left it all over the place, and didn't even own a lock. No longer.

Anyone any ideas why people in general have become much more sticky fingered? Anything we can do about it?

Cindy
Sorry to hear that you have been targeted by thieves.
Hoping that you are able to recover your possessions.
Gail

Hello everyone, well I have to say that I have been inundated with kindness, old phones found in cupboards and offers of old bicylces! I knew I had great friends here but now they're just all showing off! LOL. Thank you all, really you have astounded me. So, I now have a new phone number which I shall pass out asap by email to you all. I can't thank you enough - you all know who you are!
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Me again, this is a big THANK YOU to all the gang, who surprised me yesterday and brought me to tears - your kindness and thoughts are overwhelming.
Special thanks go to the gang, Sharon, Colette, Maya, Beth, Gail, Paul, Laurie, Bob, Fred (and Coco the puppy), Coleen, Steve and the Syme family. A thanks also to all of you for just being there, being my friends, cheering me up and making me laugh - you all know who you are :-)

was fun plotting this one

and Desi I guess!