![]() ![]() As surprising as it might be, I’d never taken the two and a half hours it normally takes to climb Mount Christoffel, because of its height and the restrictions on altitude and diving. We’re headed to the 1,239-foot summit of Mount Christoffel to get the lay of the land (and hopefully come across a guru sitting cross-legged at the peak who can help me out in this challenge). To be fair, Jody doesn’t dive, so our challenge is topside, and we decide that I’ll meet up with her between dives, so before I venture underwater, we climb. And that’s before you get wet and take a gander beneath the surface. So it’s a complicated and interesting corner of the globe. Although it’s part of the Netherlands Antilles, you’ll hear more than 40 languages spoken on the island, and its food, fealty, unique undersea riches and culture are an amalgam resulting from more than 400 years of the touch of man. So we decided to meet on the field of battle and put our boasts to the test.Ĭuraçao is a strange, wonderful, beguiling and intriguing island. We both professed to know more about Curaçao than the other. Well, at least my claims were extravagant. She didn’t believe me because she’d been to Curaçao about 45 times, once dated a local man, and had felt the embrace and experience of Curaçao as only a local could. I can remember telling my friend Jody about my favorite restaurant in the Caribbean, which just happened to be in Curaçao, a place called Equus, only open on Fridays, usually filled with locals and always packed.
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