Our Last Day

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Having spent one last day snorkeling and diving, including our first night dive ever, we spent our last day in Curacao exploring the rest of the island. We started the day heading to the northeast portion of the island to the Ostrich and Game Farm. Although we didn't take the tour, it is the largest ostrich farm outside Africa. We did eat lunch there at the African restaurant Zambezi, which is an open-air restaurant covered by a thatch roof. The food was great! Paul had ostrich and I had a spicy pumpkin soup.

After the Ostrich Farm, we spent most of our time in the capital city of Willemstad. Because it was the final day of Christmas, much of the city was closed to celebrate by shooting off hundreds of thousands of firecrackers (literally) and other fireworks - even though it was the middle of the day! While trying to navigate our way around town, especially with many of the roads closed off to fireworks, a police car almost ran us over because our 3 cyl. clown car was so slow.

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Photos

Heading out of Habitat
This is the view as you leave the entrance to Habitat. You can see the Cathedral in St. Willibrordus.

Cathedral of St. William Brothers
Each small town throughout Curacao has a church similar to this one in St. Willibrordus, just outside Habitat. This is the church that you could see from one of our earlier photos taken from the dive boat.

Cemetary
Each church also has its own above-ground cemetary.

Flamingo Sanctuary
Just outside the town of St. Willibrordus is the Flamingo Sanctuary. This large "salt pond" is sometimes filled with thousands of flamingos.

St. Joris Bay
This is the scenic view from the restaurant Zambezi at the Ostrich and Game Farm.

Paul's New Friend
Near the restaurant were some pot bellied pigs that Paul fell in love with.

Ostrich
About 700 ostriches, emus and similar birds are on the ranch.

Ostrich and Game Farm
We didn't take the tour because we wanted to head towards Willemstad, but it looked interesting.

Our Clown Car!
Paul almost didn't fit in it!

Venezuelan Oil Refinery
This is the first view you have coming into Willemstad.

Punda District
Punda is the district in Willemstad that is the busiest (and where we almost got run over in our clown car). Note the Dutch-style architecture.

Otrabanda District
We're taking these photos from Otrabanda (the "other" side), which is the district across Sint Annabaai (Saint Anna Bay). This district was much easier to navigate, and we had a great view of the market.

Last Margarita
Paul caught me eating the lime from my margarita. We hung out at this open air restaurant during a brief afternoon rain shower.

Final Evening
After a long day of exploring the island, we headed out for our last dinner on Curacao. Our favorite restaurant was the French Bistro Le Clochard. We were sad to say, "goodbye!"