Pam needs a nap! lol So I thought I’d post a bit and show you what we’ve been up to. We started the day snorkeling, just around the condo today. We saw some nice fish, but the ocean is quite different here – on one side of the resort, there is a HUGE dropoff and the ocean quickly drops away to darkness. We’ve seen a number of barracuda already.
Pam got to see her first “spotted drum” as well. It’s not the greatest shot of it, but it’s a very pretty fish, with his long flowing dorsal fin, that almost waves like a scarf. I’m sure we’ll get a better picture of one of them.
We did not see any turtles or moray eels yet, but we’re told this area has a lot of them. There are certainly a lot of barracuda around, way more than we saw on Aruba. This area is very well populated, and I was surprised to see so many barracuda hanging around, literally amongst our feet as we entered at the condo’s main beach.
Willemstad is much bigger than Orangestad on Aruba. It’s a large city, really, not simply a town. It has some typical Caribbean architecture and the bright colors we saw on Aruba.
Like Orangestad, not much is open past 2 pm on Sunday. Should be fun to see how many people are around these sites we saw today, which were virtually deserted. No cruise ships in the harbor, either today.
Nice first day – we’re off to have a nice dinner – I think we’re going for fresh seafood on the beach. Who knows? We certainly don’t! We’re on vacation! We don’t have no steenking plans!
OH BTW – there is a web cam here that Peter reminded me about – The picture it shows ALMOST shows our actual unit! You can see a balcony, on the right of the picture, and we’re the NEXT unit to the right.
