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 Mount Christoffel Good evening one and all, it was another fun day in Curacao!! Today we left the house at 7:00 and headed for Mount Christoffel located on the Western tip of the island. It was me, Aimee, Emily and Junior, dogs are not allowed in the park so unfortunately they had to stay home!! We all had an absolute blast today! The climb itself is around 1300 feet, and the trail is rough, washed out and very rocky. Junior, who as most of you know is one of our dolphin trainers, he was so funny today. We started out as a group but minutes into the climb he asked “do you guys mind if I run up ahead, I want to see how fast I can get to the top”!! All of us were already out of breath and sweating really bad trying to keep up to him so we said “go for it”!! Hearing that he was off like a man on a mission! We kept climbing and climbing, the trail got steeper and steeper and we seemed to just get wetter by the second, it was like someone had poured a bucket of water on each of us! It got so bad that I couldn’t even see out of my glasses anymore because of them fogging up from the humidity. Well after around 25 minutes my phone rang and it was Junior calling from the top, we were a little more than half way at this point. Being from Honduras Junior was made for this crazy environment, he’s skinny and fast! Your photo this evening is of Aimee (red hat) and Emily on the last part of the climb to the top. You can really see just how high we climbed and the ocean in the background. Once at the top there was a very cool strong wind blowing and after 15 minutes our clothes were dry again. I carried up a backpack with 20 pounds of camera gear and am feeling it tonight. I finally got some great Trupial shots (local bird) and some other little birds, I kept busy with that while the others took photos of each other and in general just had a great time. As we were up there climber after climber made their way up all gasping for air and completely soaked!! For those of you reading this and wanting to go, be warned it’s hard on the knees also get there very early, take lots of water, a dry pair of clothes and don’t forget the camera the view at the top is incredible!!
We got back to civilization at around 12:30 and had a hard time getting out of the car because of our tired and weak legs, they felt like Jell-O! We did a little shopping at the new Goisco Mega Store, we went in for DVD’s and came out with tons of other things, funny how that happens!!
That’s about it, I heard Sully is still doing great and George may be back tomorrow. Talk to you tomorrow, Barry
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