It sure has been a long time since I have signed up on here.
Been busy with work and whatnot.

But now I have started a well-deserved month's vacation.

Quite a lot has happened over the last months. Some good and some bad. One that is most recent in my mind is that plane crash where they pilot lost an engine and could not make the airport and had to ditch in the ocean.

It was quite an experience for me and my colleagues though because our boss was on that plane too. He was late in arriving at the office and we were wondering why and then we heard that a plane from the airline he flies with had crashed. It was hard for any of us to even work. We were all in shock.
All 9 passengers survived, the pilot unfortunately went down with the plane.
Although passengers tried pulling him out of his seat, he was strapped tight and stuck. He was unconscious. Most likely due to the hit when the plane hit the water. Hopefully he felt no pain when he was dying and did not come to when that plane sank.

I had never seen the pilot nor did I know him, but it did keep me awake wondering about what he might have felt if he was able to come to and notice that he was under water going to depths of close to 200 meters.
And you start thinking the "what ifs", that's when I kick myself and say "stop thinking about what ifs because it can't be changed anyway".
If it was hard for even us who had no idea who the guy was to process his death, I can imagine how difficult it is for his loved ones.

Anyway, I now have time off which I am extremely happy about because I am just exhausted mentally from work. So, I am really looking forward to the next weeks. Hopefully I will get to do things I normally don't have time for, get to relax, get creative and get some poetry down on paper and edit some that are already on paper waiting to be "fixed", learn some new things, and hopefully sign in on here more often.

See ya,

Had a nice visit to the Curaçao Seaquarium while in Curaçao a month ago. I have not been there in at least 8 YEARS. Many new things I had heard about but not seen. The new attractions like the dolphin encounters and different shows make it interesting. A little less boring than what I remember. Just a little less. lol

Windows live writer does not work well with Blogger and even after trying very hard to fix this on blogger, I still can't!!! Everything is spaced and not like it looked in the preview. :( And even with the blogger preview what you see is not what you get. But I hope you like the pictures anyway.

Here's a fast few of where I was at and what I have seen. I hope you will enjoy the pictures.

And for those postcard collectors....read until the end and you will have the chance to win a nice postcard.

The following picture is on the way to the ticket office of the aquarium. This is the entrance of the aquarium.

I am not sure what that boat is for. I think maybe it's an office (?). Not sure.
There's also a resort on this property, so if you are ever there you can stay their too.

At the entrance there were a couple of trainers with some sea lions.

There was a HUGE sea lion. Well, huge compared to the others. lol I am sure there are bigger ones in the wild.

It also had a very BIG YAWN!

The tickets are expensive but for locals not as much because with an ID-card locals get a discount.

They have, among others, a sea lion show but it seems I was late for that. Be sure to get a schedule from the ticket office with show times at the aquarium. You don’t want to miss any shows.

I saw flamingos, fish, sharks. There was also a touch tank.

Each fish tank has a board in front of it with the names of the fish in that tank and a bit of information on that fish. I didn’t take too many fish tank pics though.

I do not remember the name of this fish. But it basically is on its side and its eye is right above the l in my watermark.

If anybody can help with the name of this fish, feel free to, because I certainly don’t remember. lol

Now, on to the shark pool. Visitors could actually feed the sharks fish. No, I didn’t do it. There was too much of a crowd wanting to feed them and I didn’t feel like waiting so long just to feed a shark.

So, I just took some pictures.

What they do is, they stick a fish unto a big hook-like metal thing and a visitor can hold it in the tank and the shark grabs the fish. It’s just a loud snap in that water when the shark grabs the fish.

Okay, moving on to the touch tank. No, it’s not the picture to your left. :P

In the touch tank you get to see conches, sea cucumbers, starfish and urchins. And of course I just had to touch everything……except the urchins. :D

The sea cucumbers do not look like anything you want to pick up. Believe me! But, I did anyway. They have to be picked up very slow and gently.

They are soooo soft and I have no doubt that if you squeeze, they die.

Starfish are always beautiful. Sea urchins….ouch!

Now, a quick trip to the dolphins but before that I want to share a picture of a very big fish. I hate that it was such a big fish in a small tank. If only I could set it free…..all of the fish actually.

Dolphins…I actually liked that they are actually in the ocean and not a tank. That was what I most liked when seeing the dolphins. Visitors can also have encounters with them. That also looked like a lot of fun.

You can also get a kiss on the cheek from a dolphin. What they do is basically touch your cheek so, it’s not really a kiss, but they call it a kiss.

Anyway, that was in a nutshell some things I have seen and some of the pictures I have taken.I hope you liked the pictures. :)

If you want a chance of winning that postcard I mentioned at the beginning just post a comment and I will randomly choose one of the comments and the lucky winner will get a postcard which has to do with this blog post. :)

Later,