Cas Abou - well, car wrecks and former habitation
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On Thursday September 3, 2015, we went once again to Cas Abou. This time we had three targets: to investigate a peculiar well, looking for former houses to the South of the plantation house and also looking for a large builing and former houses to the North of the plantation house. We had a special guest for this hike, Frensel Mercelina was joining us. Also Karel Aster was back after his vacation in The Netherlands. And of course the regular sleuths, François, Fred, Hetty, Eddy and I.
The well was found during a previous hike in this area. It is peculiar because it has a strange ridge close to the bottom and it contains a pile of sand. To investigate this dry well, François had brought a 20 feet ladder. So for the first part of the hike we went through the vegetation with this ladder. The well was about 300 meters from the plantation house. Luckily the terrain was not too difficult to do with a ladder.
Arriving at the well we started by cleaning part of the rim from the overgrowth. We found out that we need an new tool for this. We already have a "Dirk pruner" but Frensel brought another useful tool, the "Frensel foldable saw". A good addition to our toolkit. After clearing the rim we positioned the ladder inside the well. It was just long enough.
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From Pos Monton to Pos Sorsaka
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On Thursday August 27, 2015 we went back to the Christoffelpark to Pos Monton. There we had found the triple indigo tank systems, two complete systems and one remnant of a system. Our target was to go from there to another pos, Pos Sorsaka in the area of St. Hieronymus through a system of dry waterways (rois), that during the rain season channel the water from the mountains to lower lying areas. Of course we hoped to find the indigo tank system(s) of St. Hieronymus along the way. Fred and François did this trip already in 2008 but at that time they were not specifically looking for indigo tanks.
Chris Winkel was with us this time and also Eliane Haseth who accompanies us regularly when she is in Curaçao.
We met at the parking lot of the Christoffel park at 8 AM and from there we drove with two cars to the parking spot close to Pos Monton. Pos Monton is a place that is regularly visited by the local deer, so we tried to walk as quietly as possible to the pos. This time we were not lucky. No deer. We foudn out that the water level dropped considerably the last few months.
Once more to Cas Abou - second indigo tank system
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On August 6 the archaeology sleuths went to Cas Abou to search for the remnants of old houses; I was unable to join that hike; that lead to a lot of regrets because they found a second set of indigo tanks on the plantation of Cas Abou. Luckily they decided to go back for another trip in this area on Thursday Augus 13. This time I was present. After parking our cars at the plantation house we walked via the road to the point closest to the indigo tanks. There we entered the vegetation. Soon we found a foundation of what probably was a drinking tank for cattle. Two rows of lime stones with a corner on one end; the distance between the two rows was too small for a house. That is why we concluded that it probably was a drinking tank.
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Second search for indian site C-053
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A few weeks ago we went looking for indian site C-053 in the Christoffel park close to Seru Christoffel Chikitu. We didn't find the site at the location that we derived from the map from Jay Haviser. Instead we found a second set of indigo tank systems for the plantation Savonet. One week later we went looking for another indian site C-052, also in the Christoffel park. Also that site was not found at the location on the map.
On Thursday July 30 we, François, Fred, Eddy, Hetty and I, went once again to the Christoffel park to look for the indian site C-053 at the location on the 'Cultuurhistorische waardekaart'. That map is produced to mark areas that are of a certain importance from an historical perspective. Also the indian sites are marked on that map. The location of the sires C-052 and C-053 differ from the location on the Jay Haviser map. We already know from experience with the C-060 site that this map is also not very accurate, but it was worth a try.
Hyronimus - searching for phosphate mining
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In the Northern part of Hyronimus, an area currently better known as Wacawa, phosphate mining was done in the past. When we visited the caves on the border between the Christoffel park and Hyronimus we found excavations in these caves. We, in this case François, Fred, Eddy, Hetty and I, wanted to know if to the South of that area also traces could be found of phosphate mining. So when there was no shooting in that area we asked permission from the owners to enter.
We drove with two cars to a valley to the South of the plateau that we wanted to investigate. We also wanted to take a look in the large valley to the North of the Seru di Cueba and that plateau. But in the end we didn't have the time for the valley.
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