| Before you start thinking
that I am rich or something, I traded my floating-every-other-year
timeshare week in Daytona Beach for the hotel: The
Aruba Renaissance Resort. What a great place! |
Just click the
links. I don't feel like doing thumbnails |
| Waiting
on the Boat to the Hotel's Private Island/Beach |
These
flamingo's live on the island, and happily pose for photos.
I have one of them with BJ, but it's a topless beach and this is a
family website... sorry! |
| The California
Lighthouse on the North end of the island. Named for a ship
that wrecked off the coast in the 1800s or something like that.
We have views to the West and to the East. |
It really is a Desert
Island. But it's beautiful.
We took a bus tour thru the national park.
We tried to get pictures of the iguanas,
but with the camera set to 640X480 they just didn't show up on the huge
boulders. I have some on paper that need to be scanned
in. Soon, I promise. |
| Same tour took us to a cave.
Evidently the island used to export guano for the fertilizer
industry. Not very profitable now, but the bats
are still there. The cave has Indian drawings on the ceiling
but they are almost totally obscured by the graffiti. That's why
the entrance to the cave is fenced
now. |
We got to see two of the
island's natural bridges. The East
side of the island is referred to as the "Wild
Side". You can believe it when you are on a tour bus
going over the unpaved roads. |
| I don't remember the
story on the pretty little church
that we say. But the "Oasis"
here belonged to the guy that originally owned the property where
the cave was located. it is still a private residence so we
couldn't go stomping around. Just funny to see all the green
when there wasn't a golf course or a resort around. |
We also toured the butterfly
farm. Switched the camera to 800X600 and BJ stood REAL
STILL to get these. The blue
one was iridescent, but the photos don't do it justice. They
feed the butterflies by leaving out pieces
of cut fruit. The butterflies "eat" the juice off the
fruit. According to the Tour guide, the male butterflies tend to
wait until the fruit begins to ferment before they drink the
juice. I can relate to that.. |
| That's it for now, I'll
start scanning soon. |
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