Marijke Wilhelmus lives in Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands). Apart from owning Blue Oceans, she is also co-owner of Bonaire Rent a Car. Previously she has lived in Idskenhuizen in Friesland (Netherlands), Port Vila in Vanuatu, Suva in Fiji, Findhorn in Scotland and all around the Netherlands before that.

She enjoys gardening, travel, watersports, swimming, sailing, snorkelling and scuba diving! She has done over 100 dives in Beqa Legoon, which is a wonderful dive site in Fiji and many dives on Bonaire.

Marijke loves islands, in particular Hawai'i, Fiji, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Jamaica and also Tasmania. She has been fortunate enough to spend over four years in Hawai'i, four months in Jamaica and visit the Cook Islands twice.

She likes to correspond with others who love travelling, watersports and ecology, so please get in touch if you love them too.

Her daughter Natalja Heybroek graduated in International Business Management and is also an artist living in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Her son Clark Heijbroek graduated in Landscape Architecture and is living in Maine, U.S.A working as an organic farmer.