Thanks Don! And Dan, Rob, Frank and others who have looked and commented. I do enjoy travel! I would rather have spent the time in the Nagev Desert or in Venice or Rome or Paris or London or Machu Pichu, but this cruise was what seemed feasible at the time. And I think it was time well spent, both photographically and in terms of its primary purpose: giving my wife a total break from her routine.
stan On Mar 13, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Don Guthrie wrote: > Stan, I am convinced you are a natural-born travel photographer. But you & > Dan M. are killing me with these tropical wonderlands. > > > [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 4 >> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:23:25 -0400 >> From: Stan Halpin<[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> >> Subject: GESO: Caribbean Chapter 4 (Aruba) >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> 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 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
