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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Saint Joris Bay in Curacao, Curacao RecreationNEWER POST:Diving with Dolphins in the Open Ocean, CuracaoJun 16, 10 Comments Off
Good morning friends, I ended up trying to get to bed early last night but with a party next door, the phone ringing and the cat’s fighting outside it was very difficult! I did a dolphin dive with George, Tela and Pasku yesterday morning but with no sun and very overcast skies my photos looked like we were at 100 feet, you really need the sun! The puppies are doing fine at the “Puppy Hotel”, I am loving the break I am getting and finally able to get some odd jobs done around here. Tomorrow I have two friends from Bonaire coming to spend five days with me, they both work at the one and only Wannadive Hotel and dive shop.
Here is something Aimee and I have never seen before, this is a blooming Curacao Candle Cactus. I found this in the parking lot last week during a rain storm, it was actually raining when I took this. We have three different species of this cactus on Curacao but all are called Candle Cactus in general. Pilosocereus lanuginosus has robust arms and grows in clumps, Subpilocereus repandus has a giant trunk at the base and then arms growing out of the trunk, very much like a tree and this one seen here with the flower is called, Ritterocereus griseus and it’s arms grow individually from the ground with the arms shooting high in the sky. What I didn’t know was that these creamy white to pinkish flowers only open at night or as you see here during a rain storm. This species like many other cactus flowers is mainly being pollinated by bats, so I guess I will need to go and check these out at night. The dark red fruit is round and covered with spines and once these have been removed the fruit is highly edible and makes great jams. The fruit of these cactus is what keeps many of our local birds and reptiles alive during long periods of drought when other fruits are very scarce. The locals here chop these cactus off at the base and take them home and build fences around their properties with them as they grow very fast and make the best fence in the World!
I have two dogs crying waiting to go, talk to you tonight, have a great day, Barry
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