The waves were still high, so we decided to see a couple of things we’ve never seen on Aruba. We drove south to San Nicolas in search of the Lourdes Grotto. It’s a religious shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It’s in the hills above San Nicolas. It’s all decorated in lights this time of year for Christmas, so we’ll definitely have to take a drive back in the evening sometime.

Close by, there is what looks like a magnificent church. It turns out to be an artificial house constructed to be a “lighthouse” as one of the locals told us. She insisted we MUST come back at night in order to see it. She said it was most beautiful.

We took a drive over to the east coast to watch the kite surfers get pounded by the surf. We have a short movie showing one guy taking a face plant into the ocean.

Roger’s Beach is a small not very busy beach, just north of Baby Beach. The snorkeling is never very good there, but it’s a long sandy beach, just right for sun tanning.

In the evening, we took a drive up to the California Lighthouse to check out the sunset. Pam loves the palm trees silhouetted against the evening sky. The sunset was really golden this evening. Usually it’s got a red, red glow, but today it was golden!