This place lived up to the hype. We didn’t do anything special for the appetizer, just mozza sticks, but they were good as mozza sticks go. Also had the split-bowl soup … both sides were incredible! I had the Combo rib platter … half std. ribs (recipe from the Caribbean’s best rib place, they claim) and half jerk-style. Awesome … plenty on the plate as well. Good side veggies to boot.

Corey tries one of their “Not an Ordinary Burger”or something like that … and it was certainly not ordinary. Reminded me of a place called Bonni-Lynn’s in West Linn, Oregon that made some of the best & biggest burgers that I’ve run across!

A neat atmosphere, we sat at the rail over the main drag and got to do lots of people watching … including this fella who just moments later got the third degree form the local “Polis”. He offered us some “Ganja” as we drove past him earlier … happened just twice on our trip … had to explain to my Alaskan companion what Ganja was!



Wednesday was Bob’s day … I got to plan it all!

The start of “my day” looked innocent enough; this is a little different boat than we’ve been on before:



Hmm, there’s something about being strapped in:



Here’s a new view of Aruba!



A look over the high-rise strip:



Parasailing was a hoot … even if it did scare the hell out of Corey just watching me up there while she rode in the boat. No problem finding a ride. We went back to De Palm Pier and before we got onto the beach we had a fella asking us if we needed beach chairs (I guess some folks come here without staying at the hotels and rent chairs and other beach stuff to lay out here and people watch). We told him no and that we wanted to parasail and no problem, he led us right up to a booth to sign up.

$40 seems to be about the going rate … generally about 15 minutes in the air. I don’t know if I got lucky or not by having a fella that seemed to perhaps one-up the other operators by seeing just how high he could get me. I honestly think I was was about twice the height of most others I saw out there at the time.

Corey snapping pix as I’m the one reeled in this time!



It’s a weird sensation, a little unnerving, but quite the rush as well. Make sure to take your camera up … if you don’t want to get wet, you won’t. You launch and land on a deck on the back of the boat.

After parasailing, we went back and changed to head up to Tierra del Sol for a round of golf. If you play after 12 PM, it’s $100 pp … and $35 for club rental, of course, cart & range balls included.



I wasn’t aware that this was a stop on the Senior Tour, but the folks from Nebraska on the snorkeling cruise said that it was.

A very nice course … of Robert Trent Jones II design. Perhaps a little rough around the edges to me in not being as lush many of the nicer courses I played in wetter areas. Quite challenging though, the breeze is a factor but not overwhelming as I expected it might be. Somewhat of a target course, with tons of bunkers (tiny shells / pieces in the sand), a little water on a few holes, lots of undulations & mounding, and greens far trickier than I’ve been playing in Alaska in recent years.

For the first time, I got to experience the ParView system: each of Tierra del Sol’s golf carts is equipped with a satellite dish and a 10.4” color screen. Some of the features include graphic hole and green overviews; exact distancing from the cart to the center of the green; exact pin placement for each day; electronic scoring; two-way communication with the clubhouse; food and beverage ordering from the cart to the grill and pro tips.