Baby Beach walk – Aruba, Sep 17th

This is not an actual hike or a park or even a trail. So you may ask, then why am I posting it right? Well, it was a nice long walk following the coast line from Baby Beach and it did have a couple of interesting things to it so I thought I’d share it. Besides, I was geeky enough to carry my GPS and track it just for the fun of it.
Back in September Val and I took a weeklong vacation to Aruba to celebrate my dad’s 80’s birthday. While there, we spent most of the time on the beach but we managed to do a hike (that I’ll post later) and this nice walk. Baby Beach is a nice little bay located on the southern coast of Aruba near the town of San Nicolas. It’s a great place to go spend the day in crystalline blue water and white sand and do pretty much nothing. But if you are like me or Val, there has to be some leg stretching or walk or hike. So the day we went there, after spending some time in the beach, we decided to go for a walk. One option was to cross the bay but on the other side we could see some small structures that are on the southern side of an old refinery in Nanki. Instead, we started walking east following the coast line. Near us, the coast was white and shinny to the point of almost hurting the eyes. Beyond that it was crystal clear blue water and then deep ocean. We took our time to check little shells and corals as we went. Not long after, Baby Beach disappeared behind us and I started noticing what looked like crosses farther on. At first I attributed that to my bad sight but as we walked we realized that yes, there were a lot of crosses on the ground. At first it looked kind of creepy but we still decided to go check it out. As we got closer, we realized it was a pet cemetery that spread over a large portion of terrain on the right side of a dirt road. It was almost parceled but clearly not an official cemetery. Almost all crosses had the name written on it, some old enough for the paint to have completely faded, and some sort of toy or food plate or something that probably belonged to the pet. To say the least, it was interesting. From there on, there was pretty much nothing, just a dirt road, the coast line and the sea. We saw some old structures but couldn’t make what they were supposed to be. Going further we got to a spit on the south end of the island where the coast turns north. This point is where the calm blue Caribbean Sea meets the dark, blue rough Atlantic Ocean. On one side of the spit you have calm waters and on the other big waves crashing into the shore. We continued just for a bit longer as we couldn’t walk comfortably on the rough rocks eroded by the sea, but managed to take some nice pictures of waves hitting the rocks. Not a hike, but definitely a very nice walk




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