Old Water Dam walls
These walls used to hold some water about 30+ years ago, but have deteriorated considerably over the years.
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Old Water Dam walls
Bugs or Ants?
Been having lots of troubles with what I believe might be the Giant Ants. They have been attacking the plants at night time and really creating havoc. Our Lemon/Lime tree…
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Bugs or Ants?
Comcomber Criollo
The cucumber plants are doing fantastic and I need to make additional space for it on just about a daily basis. At least no problems with bugs on these plants
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Comcomber Criollo
Water Well
Following up on our longtime wish to put a water well on the property we had a visit this week by an engineer and reviewed the situation. It will be…
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Water Well
Sea Grapes
There is some hope after all These Sea Grapes were planted on March 30, 2018, by the North Eastern tip of the property, just adjacent to where we are planning…
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Sea Grapes
Max rocks
So Max this morning picked up some fairly heavy rocks and built a small holding wall around the coconut tree, where the rainwater has taken the little retainer wall about…
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Max rocks
Getting ready to plant some more Aloe
Here are some of the Aloe plants that I am relocating. Saw a bird nest in one of the Aloe bunches, so left these to be relocated untill after nesting…
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Getting ready to plant some more Aloe
Rainy night, all well
So we again had a rainy few hours last night and all the ground prep work paid off. Runoff damage is finally under control, after investing in many hours of…
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Rainy night, all well
Giant Bringsmosa/Poison Ivy
Walking the yard, I saw the Bringamosa bush grew tremendously. It must measure about 2 1/2m wide and about 1m high Will definitely put up a warning sign, for those…
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Giant Bringsmosa/Poison Ivy
More rainwater preparation
After another strong downpour this morning, i noticed that we still had some areas that were not channeling the rain water properly. So in between rain showers, of I went…
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More rainwater preparation
Prepping for more rain …
Did some additional prep work to avoid rain water run-off close to the Aloe fields. Hopefully this will hold of the excess rain water a little and channel it to…
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Prepping for more rain …
The joys of tending Nature & Fauna …
While caring for the plants this morning, saw this beautiful Monarch butterfly feasting on the lime/lemon tree flowers Can't wait to start taking pictures with a better camera of these…
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The joys of tending Nature & Fauna …
Lemons/Limes/Mint & Bees ….
This morning I looked at the status of the lemon/lime plant in the rock garden, which is finally in full bloom. After feeding it for weeks with different specialty vitamins…
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Lemons/Limes/Mint & Bees ….
Busy fixing rain damage
Besides working on the plants, talking extensively with Olinda Rasmijn regarding my failure in getting the Brasil seedlings going, i been busy fixing all the rain water damage from last…
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Busy fixing rain damage
Mint in vertical growing planters
The mint in the aquaponics has been growing very good as shown in picture below So I am trying to see if We can get the same vigorous growth of…
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Mint in vertical growing planters
Limes and Lemons coming up
The Lemon/Lime tree is doing very good and looks like we are finally getting a nice harvest of lemons :-)
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Limes and Lemons coming up
Preparing for more rain
We had quite some water/rain damage last monday morning when it rained about 6cm in less than 1 hour. Lots of sand washed away. So we build some new retainer…
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Preparing for more rain
Hopi awasero
Experienced 5cm (2") of rain this morning in only 1 hour 😳. Still accessing the damage.
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Hopi awasero
Crested Cara Cara’s
The Crested Cara Cara's have quite active by us lately both in the morning and late afternoon just before sunset, Seams they are really making the watering hole on the…
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Crested Cara Cara’s
Watering holes
Checked up on the watering holes, since a WaraWara overflew the warerspot yesterday, but did not land. Found the water quite murky, so I cleaned all the water from on…
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Watering holes
Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto (update3)
Last week I placed the Haematoxylon brasiletto seeds in water and this morning after what looks like the seeds germinated, I placed a bunch of seeds in 21 different pots.…
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Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto (update3)
Aquaponics (update)
The airpump for the fish-tank of the aquaponics test system has been quite weak in blowing bubbles lately and yesterday morning I noticed that small mosquito larvi had invaded the…
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Aquaponics (update)
Tomatoes in Watapana tree (update)
Our tomatoplants at the Watapana tree have been doing excellent, untill we had a problem with the drip system last week. Seems like our water supply from WEB caries a…
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Tomatoes in Watapana tree (update)
Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto (update2)
Last monday I was able to get a bunch of seeds of the Brasil plant (Haematoxylon brasiletto) from one of the very few plants growing wild on the island. Very…
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Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto (update2)
Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto (update)
The Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto seedling is doing fine and this morning we planted one more of the seeds that germinated So hopefully we can try to get some of…
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Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto (update)
Watering hole Success!!
Just had a nice sight, when one of the majestic Crested Caracara's (Caracara cheriway) or Wara Wara's landed at the watering hole I made a few months ago. Its a…
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Watering hole Success!!
Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto
We received some seeds of the Brasil plant (Haematoxylon brasiletto) from the Arikok National park to see if we can get some of these very rare Aruba plants to grow…
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Brasil plant/ Haematoxylon brasiletto
Tomatoes in Watapana tree 😳
This morning I transplanted 2 of the Tomato vines to the Watapana tree in the round about behind the observation deck The vines are in very good shape and have…
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Tomatoes in Watapana tree 😳
Kinikini
Was pleasantly surprised late yesterday when sighted a small Kinikini (American Kestrel/Falco Sparvertus) on top of the new nesting platform I installed a couple of weeks ago. Takes the birds…
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Kinikini
Burroughing Owl nest preparations
Spent this morning doing the prep work for the artificial Burroughing Owls nest Cleaned the location and reinforced the flex ducts so they would not move when they come with…
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Burroughing Owl nest preparations
Nature walk this morning
Spend this morning with Olinda Rasmijn from Stimaruba walking part of the creek bed towards the Ocean. Got about 1/2 way, before turning back. Learned quite a bit and lots…
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Nature walk this morning
Unkown nesting …
Since the last 3 days we noticed something is digging a nesting hole in the yard This morning the hole looked to be about 30cm deep or maybe more. It…
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Unkown nesting …
Bird Pool on Rock
Checked at sunrise and natural waterhole is keeping up 😊
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Bird Pool on Rock
Nature Walk this Saturday
Spoke yesterday to Olinda Rasmijn from Stimaruba, who is a conoisseur of the Aruba Flora and Fauna. We have scheduled a nature walk this Saturday at 6.30am starting at the…
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Nature Walk this Saturday
Bird watering spot
Been thinking about adding to the waterspot I already have and did some walking and exploring close by for a good location. Found 2 good spots, where yesterday Max and…
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Bird watering spot
Kolibrie / Hummingbird update
Yesterday i checked up on the kolibri nest and noticed it was empty ... Hmmm... Started looking around the nest on the flor but no little kolibries. The mother kolibri…
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Kolibrie / Hummingbird update
Bees
Ever since I put the small birdpond on the property, been having lots more activities of the bees, who come after the flowers and also use the birdpond as their…
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Bees
Kolibries
Late this morning a went to check up on the kolibrinest and was quite pleasantly surprised They seamed to be sleeping but also looked very dried out in the hot…
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Kolibries