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Article: Bonaire's donkey lady: go off the beaten path to visit this special woman at her unique animal sanctuary.
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- September 1, 2002
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We noticed the sign "Donkey Sanctuary" as we headed back with our car and driver to Kralendijk, capital of Bonaire. My wife and 1, freelance photo-journalists, were winding up an assignment on the tiny Dutch island in the Caribbean. I was intrigued by the sign after glimpsing the sandy, unpaved road branching off into the desert-like brush from the main highway.
"Are there donkeys on the island?" I asked our driver.
"Yes," he said. "Several hundred. All running wild."
Might be a possible article I mused, but our ship was scheduled to depart at 4 p.m. Turning to my wife, I remarked, "If we ever get back to Bonaire, we should investigate this ...