Door bell for Paradise
Swiss invention
Sid's 60th Birthday Party
Surprise!!!
Jean dock help, Jim the Mayor and Andy
Jenny, Sharon and Isabelle
Larry and Dotty
You know who that is
America Dockmaster and Xiomara Secretairy
Little Camilla
Frengipani worm
The Barrios of Caracas on our way to Merida
Sad site for miles and miles
Merida in the Venezuelan Andes
Jeep trip to Los Nevados
Merida
The roads gave uf the willies
Absolutely beautiful
Scary
Road word, we had to change Jeep
After 5 hours finally Los Nevados at 8856 ft
Plaza Bolivar
Steep road
Our Posado
Rooms are down the ramp to the left
Our quarters
The rooms
Our bathroom window
view from window
6 hour trip to the top
Lunch break
Very steep
We are at 13267 feet
Very old and beautiful church
Laguna de Mucubaji
Condor
Signing into the Condor book
Look at this beautiful garden
Note teh two sheep and the sign on the house, coinsidence???
The streets of merida
Dale and sid went cannyoning
Absolutely crazy
Laundry day for a local family
The food was wonderful
Us with Dale and Sancy
Flight back to Puerto La Cruz
Election Day December 3
Salad bowls as helmets
Joke on Larry and Dotty
moving food of their boat while they were gone
Venezuelan Halloween
Even found a turkey wings on Thanksgiving
Decorating the tree of knowledge with empty decorated beer cans
The Italians cooking dinner for us
and more food
It was yummy
Merry Paradise Christmas
Happy New Year from Molly
Oh yeah, the kids had fun with Sid
Road trip to Los Altos
with Jim
Island of the Mochima National Park
Banana flower for salad
Jim getting wild flowers
Colorado Beach
Our house we rented for 6 months
Patio with three boat slips
Huge living room
Kitchen
Nice balcony
guest room
Our bedroom
Other guest room
Terrase with incredible view
View over to Maremares
Paradise and Gymnopedies
Look what I found at the butcher Chicken Gordon Bleu, yes this big
A frequent visitor
View from house from left to rigth
Dinghy parking for the house warming party
Terry our roommate
Elisabeth and Daniel
Just good it was a huge room for all the guests
Snow White trip to Mochima National Park
Dolphins everywhere
Sandy and Molly
Ok, the anchor is down, now what?
Spaghetti mess
Mochima
the only store in Mochima all they had was bananas and coconuts
beautiful fishing boats
The gang at Plaza Bolivare, yes every town and village has one
Spectacular sunset
Dinner on Snow White
Puerto la Cruz
Trip to Colonia Tovar
a German settlement
Hummingbirds everywhere
Hummingbird
Isn't this butterfly beautiful
View from hotel room
Down the mountain
Washed out road
another one
and another one
Sid, Dale, Ken and Jim went to lake Guri Peacok Bass fishing
Nice Bass
I have nothing to say
Steve and Marsha visiting
Playa Colorado
Bees on Paradise
at one point all this was covered with bees
Brave Sid battling the bees
Aftermath
In all we had three swarms of bees infest Paradise
Sid smoked them out
He did that every couple of hours
Shanna and Roman visiting
Clay houses
More banana flowers for salad
We also found Cashews
Sid in the cashew tree
Electrical Line
Want to buy a house?
Playa Colorado, this little girl greats us every time
Shanna
Snorkel trip
El Farro on Chumana Segunda
Beautiful island
Roman just created an earthquake fault
Marias cave
Captain Manuela
Everytime we do this trip we run into lots of dolphins
Arapo Island
Couldn't snorkel with my broken nose so I chilled with a Cuba Libre
Trip to Boracho with Ernesto
Marcella
Parking a boat on the beach
Really it's a parking job
Kathy, Ally and Adam visiting
Ally
Shopping trip home with champagne
Kathy
Having fun
Adam brought lots of goodies for us
Market in Puerto La Cruz
Yuka bread
Trip to Los Altos with Jim
Lunch at Colorado Beach
I love this T-Shirt
Dinghy tour around El Morro
Out of booze
Beautiful Sunrise from house
Las Velas de Manuela celebrating in the Cueva Maria
Dual Cuba Libre
More dolphins
Cat and Mouse
Cat and
Mouse
Again the captain
Hermit crab
Sunset on Paseo Colon downtown Puerto La Cruz
Our huge room in Caracas
view from hotel room
Spectacular night view over Caracas Barios
Sunset is behind the camera
This is just a reflexion in the clouds
Paradise all done
Last nigth in house
Last spectacular sunset
Trip to Margarita with ferry
Jim
Look at the face int he rocks
Bahia Redonda
Our slip
Spectacular sunset from our slip
Taz when we found him look how small he is
I carried him around like this
He loves to eat
He even shares
and drink
His new family and buddies
