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Long time coming!

Yet another turtle picWow – I didn’t realize how long it has been since we’ve posted on the blog. I got a reminder from GoDaddy, our hosting service, that they automatically renewed our hosting and realized, oh right! We have a blog!

Bird on a boatWe’ve been doing not much of anything really. Just being retired. We’ve been in the ocean of course, and been out to restaurants, and had some fun evenings in one of the casinos here. But really, we’ve just been enjoying being in nice warm weather and not worrying about rain and snow and cold.

Golfing at Blue BayI’ve been doing a lot of golfing here on the Blue Bay golf course. It’s a challenging 18 hole course. The trade winds really make club selection so important. One hundred and twenty yards into the wind is a 6 iron, but 120 yards with the wind is an 9 iron. There are some great holes. This picture is approaching the green on the 14th hole.

Queen Triggerfish, Playa PiskadoWe went out to Playa Piskado (or Playa Grande as it is sometimes called) with a nice couple we met from Delaware, and had a fun swim with the turtles. It’s always a great way to show off the ocean around Curacao. There were tons of turtles of course, but we saw a couple of Queen triggerfish! All the years we’ve come here, we’ve never seen a single queen triggerfish – we see them in Bonaire and Aruba a lot. So it was neat to finally see one here.

Will try to get more regular about posting. Bailey is doing great, btw!

Brief little update

We are having lots of fun on the island, getting used to how things work here. Laid back is definitely an attitude, as well as a way of life. Still, things can happen very quickly too. We bought an all-in-one washer/dryer, and they had it delivered in about two hours! Installation was complete the next day. Is that unusual? Well, the next day at our beach bar, someone came up to me and said, “I heard you got your washer/dryer installed already!” So there you go – not only was it exceptional, it was the talk of the island! haha

Small octopusThe snorkeling has been quite amazing. Some days the water is so glassy calm, it’s like laying on a bed. Yesterday, was a bit rougher, and visibility was a bit murky, but still quite clear. I’ve uploaded a movie about turtles at Playa Grandi to YouTube. It was compiled with a new app called ShotCut… it’s a Windows Movie Maker alternative, since Microsoft decided to drop Movie Maker from Windows 10. Not bad for a first stab I think – it’s four clips in the one movie.

The apartment building we are in is going to be having fibre optic cable installed for internet, but there is a slight delay because the conduit for the cabling is too small! They had hoped to have it ready for August, but it will be delayed a bit while new conduit is installed. it’s a big job, but they think it will be ready in just a couple months. So, we have to take our computers to the beach for wifi access. So, I’m not doing long blog posts, but short twitter updates. You can access my twitter feed at https://twitter.com/CuracaoCanuck