Stan, I am convinced you are a natural-born travel photographer. But you
& Dan M. are killing me with these tropical wonderlands.
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:23:25 -0400
From: Stan Halpin<[email protected]>
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Subject: GESO: Caribbean Chapter 4 (Aruba)
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After St. Kitts we spent a day at sea. Too nice to be inside the cabin, or even
on the balcony, working on photos. So I tried the laptop in a recliner on the
top deck near the pools. Too bright, even in the shady spots. So I tried
reading some books I had stashed on my iPad. Too bright, even in the shady
spots. So I lay in the sun, drank beer, and did some people watching. I had
hoped for birds, flying fish, porpoises, whales etc. but saw little wildlife.
Then came Aruba. "Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 and became a
separate, autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." (According to the
CIA World Factbook ) Aruban citizens carry passports from the Netherlands and often
pursue their post-secondary education there. The locals tend to fluent in Dutch, English,
Spanish, and the local patois.
Aruba was a long day in port for us, 0800-2200. We had a leisurely morning
(including a stop by the local Starbucks to use their WiFi hotspot to check
email etc.), then joined a Toyota 4x4 Adventure Tour of the island. We had
stops at the major attractions (including the place where the Natural Bridge
used to be before it fell down a few years ago), had a lot of bumpy off-roading
along the way, and finished off with a swim at a lovely beach. The northern
windward side of the island is quite rugged with a few spots where surfing is
feasible; the southern leeward side is pretty much all beaches right out of
somebody's fantasy of what tropical beaches should be like. Some are busily
being transformed into Miami Beach replicas; I guess you do what you gotta do
when you depend on tourism.
A few few shots from our day on the island:
http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p628617890
stan
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