Seru Dingo at Playa Hunku
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In the final report written by Rose Mary Allen about "HET VOLKSLEVEN OP PORTO MARI ROND EIND NEGENTIENDE TOT DE HELFT TWINTIGSTE EEUW" (How did people live in Porto Mari around the end of the nineteenth till the mid of the twentieth age?") we find, among others, the following (translated) fragment about slaves in this area: "According to oral history people who called themselves "gueni's" lived at Plahunku. They were slaves". Plahunku is undoubtedly what we now call Playa Hunku. Another reference mentions Dingo as a place where slaves have lived. So the sleuths decided to investigate this and went to Playa Hunku on Thursday, June 27, 2013. With permission from the manager of the plantation Porto Mari the main gate was opened for us at 8:15 AM and also the gate to Playa Hunku was opened specifically for us. So we could drive directly till the beach called Playa Hunku. There we parked our cars and discussed where to start our investigation.
Plantation Fontein
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For me the first visit to the plantation of Fontein, for most of the others a repeat visit. The group was rather small because of vacation of a number of other participants. Fred, Michèle, Eddy, Hetty and I were present as was a special guest, Jasmijn, Hetty's daugther who is currently on vacation in Curaçao.
After checking with the guard at the entrance of the newly built village on part of the former plantation Fontein we got permission to enter the plantation by car; we were allowed to drive into the uninhabited part of the area.
Seru Maco
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The Seru Maco (Maco mountain) was our goal on Thursday, June 6, 2013. We had seen this mountain several times during our visits to the Seru Kabayé. A striking feature of that mountain was that the Eastern side appears to have almost no vegetatiion. That is what we saw when looking from the Seru Kabayé and that is also easily visible on Google Earth. So we decided to take a closer look.
Hato - Tanki Monpoos
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On Thursday, May 30th, 2013 a subgroup of the archaeology sleuths gathered at the parking lot of the Coast Guard near Hato Airport. For all of them except me it was a second and for one even a third visit to this area.
From the parking lot we crossed the road and entered the area of the paintball club. Our goal for today was a path between the border of Gato and Souax that could be used to patrol the borders without crossing into either area. We wanted to know if this path is still accessible. Along the road to that path we would look out for any signals that would indicate the presence of prehistoric Indians in the area.
Dry riverbed between Meiberg and Hermanus
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On Thursday May 23 at 8:15 we, François, Fred, Michèle, Carel, Eddy, Hetty and I, parked our cars along the road to Willebrordus in front of the house of the local artist Zanolini. Our target for today's hike was a dry riverbed running between the plantations of Meiberg and Hermanus. Not really a riverbed because Curaçao doesn't have rivers. But in the rainy season all the rain water has to go somewhere and this leads to what is locally called a 'rooi'. This specific rooi doesn't have a name. Another one a bit further to the West has the name Rooi Katoen on the topographical map from the beginning of the 20th century.
Nothing specific was visible on any of the topographical maps so we thought to start just a nature walk without any archaeological finds.
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