KLM 747-400 from Amsterdam to Curaçao, July 2014 |
Road sign for Curaçao's Hato Airport |
Hato Airport, Curaçao |
Hato Airport, Curaçao |
Passenger terminal - Hato Airport, Curaçao |
Insel Air MD-83 (PJ-MDF) at TNCC |
Insel Air Fokker F50 departing Curaçao (PJ-KVG) |
Insel Air MD-83 departing Curaçao (PJ-MDE) |
Surinam Airways Boeing 737 (PZ-TCQ) at Curaçao |
Road sign at the entrance to Hato Airport, Curaçao |
Flag of Curaçao |
Current Curaçao license plate with the Handselskade |
An older Curaçao license plate with a large flag |
Current Curaçao license plate |
Centrum Supermarket, Willemstad |
...never seen a pastry crocodile before... |
Good bakery at Centrum Supermarket |
Old-style street sign, Curaçao |
Caribbean cottage, Willemstad |
Koningin Julianabrug, the highest bridge in the Caribbean at 56m (185 ft) to allow ships to enter the Schottegat |
Fort Nassau (1797) |
Fort Nassau, Curaçao |
Fort Nassau |
The Port of Curaçao control tower sits atop Fort Nassau |
View south from Fort Nassau towards Willemstad and the Queen Juliana Bridge |
Schottegat, the large natural harbor of Curaçao |
Derelict ship rusting in the Schottegat |
Dry docks of Curaçao |
Curaçao Naval Base |
"Jaguar" P810, one of three cutters operated by the Dutch Caribbean Coastguard |
Curoil tanks, Sint Annabaai |
Curaçao's industrial heart, the giant oil refinery established by Royal Dutch Shell in 1919 |
Horizon Armonia, Port of Curaçao |
Curaçao's refinery is now operated by the Venezuelan national oil company |
Willemstad's power plant and desalination |
View of the Schottegat and the oil refinery from Fort Nassay |
Horizon Armonia, Port of Curaçao |
View of the Schottegat and the oil refinery from Fort Nassay |
Pacific Guardian, a British cable laying ship, at the Port of Curaçao |
Cliff top restaurant of Fort Nassau |
The bar at Fort Nassau |
The restaurant of Fort Nassau has stunning views of...the oil refinery |
Queen Juliana Bridge, Willemstad |
Omar Bin Al-Khattab Mosque, Willemstad-Welgelegen |
Map of Curaçao showing the large natural harbour of Willemstad, the Schottegat |
Green wooden house of the Weg Naar Caracasbaai |
Caracasbaai National Park |
Fort Beekenburg (1703) |
Fort Beekenburg was built to defend the harbor Spaanse Water |
Fort Beekenburg saw action against the French and English as well as pirates |
Fort Beekenburg is now part of Caracasbaai National Park |
Upper tower entrance, Fort Beekenburg |
Passage inside Fort Beekenburg |
View of Caracasbaai from Fort Beekenburg |
Ferrymar HSS Discovery, built in Finland as a high speed ferry for the Hoek van Holland to Norwich, UK route in 1996 |
The Castoro 7, a semi-submersible pipe laying barge |
Caracasbaai National Park, Curaçao |
The Castoro 7 was built in 1975 in the Netherlands |
The Castoro 7 docked in Caracasbaai, Curaçao |
The Castoro 7 is now owned by Saipem and is flagged in Panama |
Caracasbaai National Park, Curaçao |
Santa Barbara Beach and Golf Resort, Curaçao |
Santa Barbara Beach and Golf Resort, Curaçao |
Direkteursbaai, a remote beach of Caracasbaai National Park |
Park with caution at Direkteursbaai...lots of broken glass from cars that have been broken into |
Caracasbaai, outside the National Park |
Jan Thiel, an upscale suburb of Willenstad |
Caribbean Brown-Throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax pertinax) atop a cactus, Jan Thiel |
Caribbean Brown-Throated Parakeet (Aratinga pertinax pertinax) atop a cactus, Jan Thiel |
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