In the afternoon, we slipped back out of the ship and into Aruba for the half day Land Rover tour. This took us first to the Casibari Park, which is a former Native Indian settlement. Here, the Indians made their homes among the many large boulders that nature put here many moons ago. Aruba has a very barren, rocky landscape. There are also massive numbers of cactus here.
We next visited the Natural Bridge. The ocean waves, over time, carve out holes, which result in bridges of rock just hanging there. There was previously another next to the one we saw, but it collapsed in 2005. Later, we visited an old fort near the beach, which was used in the old days for disguising the digging for gold from pirates. We also visited an old chapel and the California Lighthouse. At 4.30, we were allowed to go for a swim on the southern part of the island, only so many miles from Venezuela. Two swimmers said they were from that country.
The Casibari Park is full of boulders.
We were encouraged to climb to the top of this...
Jean at the Natural Bridge
The Natural Bridge
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