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Yet Another Aruba Water Park Update

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View of construction efforts at Morgan’s Island

Size of one of the slides at Morgan’s

Another piece of a slide going up

Morgan’s gift shop “El Corsario” ready for business
I suspect that there is a lot of anticipation for the opening of Aruba’s biggest water park, Morgan’s Island at Eagle Beach. Unfortunately I don’t have more technical details [...]

Entrance of Morgan’s Island

Construction Morgan’s Island
The construction for Aruba’s biggest water park, Morgan’s Island has been ongoing for an extended amount of time. In fact at certain point it looked like the developers couldn’t cope with the delays and it would remain unfinished. Currently the construction is still ongoing, however on a seemingly slow pace. [...]

Kid Playing At Eagle Beach

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Eagle Beach
Aruba is currently in the heart of high season. For the ones who don’t exactly know when this is, the rule is simple. When it’s cold in the north eastern USA, it is the busy season in Aruba.
Despite being high season, it never gets busy at Eagle Beach. Whether it is low or high [...]

Aruba’s Biggest Waterpark

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Aruba’s biggest water park under construction: Morgan’s Island
This year Morgan’s Island Aruba Aqua Park is scheduled to open to the public at Eagle Beach. It is going to be Aruba’s biggest water park yet. Up until recently the only water slides available were exclusively at some resorts, nothing spectacular however.
Aruba’s history with water parks has [...]

Dated Palm Beach Photograph

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Palm Beach in 2004
Once in a while I like to browse thru my collection of photos. I stumbled across one that is interesting, especially if compared with changes as of late.
The picture was shot in 2004 and shows Aruba Grand Hotel and Wyndham Resort. Today those properties are owned by Riu Palace Aruba and Westin [...]

Rainy Palm Beach

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Rainy Palm Beach
As a follow-up post on the weather I drove down to Palm Beach to shoot the beach briefly while it was raining. There wasn’t really anything spectacular, just a very calm beach with some rainfall. Soon after I left it stopped raining.
Despite above average rainfall in the last few weeks, the majority of [...]

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