CHECKING IN IN BONAIRE

This is an email I received from a friend about checking in in Bonaire:

Some advice. If you ever come here do NOT check in at the Immigration office. Wait until after 4PM (when the regular immigration office is closed), and check in at the Police Station where they perform the same (immigration) service after hours with few or no questions. Customs (along the water front) and the Police Station are open 24 hours a day. We checked in the morning after we arrived instead of that same night. Customs was easy and friendly. The immigration officer was "snotty" to say the least. He demanded to know where we were and what we were doing from the time we left PLC until the time we arrived in Bonaire. I explained that we had to wait for good weather conditions to travel from place to place, explained the route we took. and he "suggested" that we could have been running drugs. I invited him to search our boat!!! I was so pissed off by then I really had to hold it together to stay "nice". He said we should have checked in at Los Roques with the Costa Guardia, and I said that we had checked out of VZ in PLC because you couldn't check out in the offshore islands so why would we check in with the Coast Guard in Los Roques. Finally he just walked away from the window, leaving me and Diane (who was next in line) wondering what would happen next. He finally came back to his desk, stamped all of the papers, and shoved them through the window slot without even looking at me. I asked if everything was completed, and he said yes and waved me off with his hand, again not even looking at me. SOOO, welcome to Bonaire!!! Some of our other cruising friends "escaped in a hurry" from the office where I was, waited until after 4PM, went to the police station and had NO
problems!!!!