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Port of Call · II

Aruba

March 2025

Trade winds, gulls with opinions, and water so clear it stopped being water. (Replace this with your own words.)

Oranjestad town with painted roofs and the Hooiberg hill behind
Oranjestad, from Above
Digital photograph
Aruba · 2025
The Hooiberg keeps watch over a town of painted roofs.
Glass Water
Digital photograph
Aruba · 2025
Shallow enough to count the ripples of light on the sand.
Crystal-clear shallow green water with light ripples
Laughing gulls perched on a safety sign by the rocks
The Committee
Digital photograph
Aruba · 2025
The gulls read the safety sign carefully, then ignore it.
Landing Clearance
Digital photograph
Aruba · 2025
One gull holds the beam; another requests permission.
A gull landing beside another perched on a rusty beam
Churning teal water in the ship's wake
The Wake, Churning
Digital photograph
Aruba · 2025
Where the ship stirs the sea into green marble.
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