Meteorite on Mars
The Opportunity rover is still chugging along after more than five years on Mars. Look what it recently discovered on its way to Endeavor crater. Yes, that’s a meteorite. It’s about 2 feet across...
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Illusion of Accomplishment
Infinite Summer (which I mentioned earlier) is sort of an online book club which is reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest this summer. I don’t want to spoil the book if you haven’t read...
Fields of Fire
Today we went snorkeling (not unlike any other day in Aruba). We were snorkeling in Mangel Halto, which had amazing amounts of fire coral. All this fire coral I have named the Fields of...
Balloon Fishing
Every evening outside the house we’re renting, there are a number of people standing on the reef blowing up party balloons and throwing them into the water. It turns out they’re fishing. Malmok reef...
Perseids and Baby Beach
Last night and tonight, we all sat out on the beach and watched for meteors. It’s time for the Perseids. It’s really nice and dark here on Aruba, but we weren’t very successful. We...
A Good Day
We snorkled the length of the Malmok reef today. Peter, who is notorious for not being able to resist touching anything, found a pair of ugly fish sitting on a big anchor on the...
Political Flag Waving
When we first landed in Aruba, we immediately noticed all of the cars zooming around that had big, colorful flags on them. There were also flags flying in the front yards of houses along...
Donkey Odie
Tonight during supper a donkey walked up to the gate in front of the house. It was a wild donkey. We guessed it was wild because we had heard there were wild donkeys on...
Gone Fishin’
There’s not going to be a lot of posts for a while, because we’re here: View Larger Map We’ll tell you all about it when we get back. Until then, there’s not going to...
