On this island we decided to rent another car to travel around and see the whole island (don't worry we were extra careful and I only reminded my mom of that girl who went missing a couple years back AFTER we left). We decided to go a bit cheaper and get just a car - however tip of the Caribbean - Aruba is the island to rent a jeep on, we took the car on a few steep hills and dirt roads and lets just say we're glad we made it back with all the tires still in tack!
First we headed over to one point of the island - saw the Colorado Lighthouse named for the USS Colorado that sunk off the coast (A lot of sunken ships here too including one that was somewhat uncovered and close to the shore - we only later learned that it was a sunken ship two miles off the coast that was brought in by a hurricane a few years back)! Then we just stopped by a local beach and got some sun and tried to cool off - Aruba was different from the other islands in that it had this desert theme to it and a lot of cactus everywhere too!
Then we drove over to the World's largest land bridge - well where it had been, it collapsed a few years back but they had another baby land bridge right next to it so we stopped there and on the way we found this old abandoned Fort along the coast constucted with these great rocks! So we stopped to do a little exploring!
Posing in the windows and jumping to the shelf over Joe's head!
The Natural Land Bridge that had collapsed
Just running into The Danger Zone, and Annie and I posing on the Baby Land Bridge making bridges with our bodies - trying to spice our pictures up!
We then drove on through Aruba's National Park which actually has quite a bit of land preserved and we also ended up at these caves that at one time had been right along the coast and formed by the water constantly pounding in - there were all these tour guides to show us the ancient pictures of chiefs that were all high on mushrooms when they painted and they showed us the dripping of these minerals over many years, and our guide Valentino (aka Rambo) told us that the fruit bats lived in the very back of the cave and that they bite you if you try to catch them and after he finished that speech he was like "so you want me to take you to the end of the cave" It only took about ten minutes of course I paused briefly or just went stiff everytime a bat flew by me and the further we went into the cave the HOTTER it got - well just much more humid so we were dripping with sweat by the time we got to the end but it was still really fun.
The ancient drawings and crawling through the cave - notice how sweaty I am it was HOT!
Our guide Rambo and the three of us at the end of the tunnel
Afterward we just went to one more beach to cool off before we headed back to turn in the car. If I go again I guess some other places to stop, besides the rum factory, is the water refinery plant which cleanses a lot of water for the islands, and the gold mining factory which has been reopened I think due to the price of gold right now!
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