Leg 256, El Banco, Colombia via ABC Islands to Isla La Orchila, Venezuela
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I switched to flying in the morning today, still heading east, getting darker earlier every day. Sunrise instead of sunset today. To the Caribbean Sea, the south part for now, ABC islands and others off the coast of Venezuela. The rest of the Caribbean is for the way back north.
05-04 El Banco Apt SKBC 7:04 AM
05-04 El Eden SKRC 7:17 AM
05-04 Plato SKPL 7:29 AM
05-04 La Vega SKPJ 7:35 AM
05-04 San Pablo - Incora SKSC 7:46 AM
05-04 Rafael Nunez SKCG 7:57 AM
05-04 El Tambo SKST 8:01 AM
05-04 Hacienda Veracruz SKLU 8:10 AM Faded runway
05-04 Ernesto Cortissoz SKBQ 8:23 AM
05-04 La Ye SKDN 8:45 AM La Ciudad Perdida 11°02’16.6"N 73°55’30.7"W
05-04 Villanueva SKUY 9:39 AM No runway, landed in field
05-04 El Molino SXFA 9:44 AM Stripe in field
05-04 Buenavista SKBN 9:51 AM
05-04 Cerrejon Central SKBW 9:59 AM
05-04 La Chinita Intl SVMC 10:26 AM
05-04 Santa Rita SVWT 10:33 AM Tree at end of runway
05-04 Santa Rita SVWS 10:42 AM
05-04 Dabajuro SVDU 10:59 AM
05-04 Jose L Chirinos Intl SVCR 11:25 AM
05-04 Josefa Camejo Intl SVJC 11:38 AM
05-04 Oranjestad/Reina Beatrix Intl TNCA 11:57 AM Aruba
05-04 Willemstand/Hato Intl TNCC 12:25 AM Curacao
05-04 Flamingo TNCB 12:49 AM Bonaire
05-04 Dos Mosquises SVDM 1:28 PM
05-04 El Gran Roque SVRS 1:42 PM
05-04 La Orchila SVLO 1:58 PM
Flight time 6:54 25 stops
Departure from El Banco just after sunrise
Cienaga Chilloa (lake)
San Zenón
Plato in Magdalena Department on the Magdalena River
The Magdalena River near San Luis
San Luis in between the Magdalena River and Ciénaga Zurra
San Juan Nepomuceno
Over Bolivar
Ciénaga de Guájaro
Barranquilla on the Magdalena River
Tasajeras on the land bridge between Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta and the Caribbean Sea
Ciénaga at the eastern end of the land bridge
Serrania La Secreta
Rio Frio, lemme guess, the cold river, this one in Magdalena
Climbing up to Pico Cristóbal Colón (18,800ft) hidden in the clouds
Realizing it’s very high, turning to the next ‘shiny’
Looking for the lost city
Found it, La Ciudad Perdida
Archaeological site at the ruins of a city believed to date back to the year 800 CE
Enjoying a bit of canyon flying along the Rio Buritaca
I wonder who lives there
After scaling the mountains through thick clouds, emerging into the open over the Rio Curiba
Bit of icing from the mountain crossing, should melt quickly
Looking back at Pico Cristóbal Colón, or where it should be in the clouds on the left
Barrancas, La Guajira
Large mining operation in Sarahita, Barrancas
Monseñor Marcos Sergio Godoy, 4027, Zulia Venezuela
Puente General Rafael Urdaneta spanning Lake Maracaibo
Puente General Rafael Urdaneta aka Puente sobre el Lago de Maracaibo
Landmark please, looks like a great bridge to fly through
Following highway Carr. Nacional Falcón - Zulia aka Troncal3
José Leonardo Chirino Airport in Coro, capital of Falcón State and the second oldest city of Venezuela
On to the ABC Islands, part of Dutch Ceribbean. Aruba first, landing at Oranjestad-Reina Beatrix Intl
Former Dutch colony which gained independence in 1986, a victory much fought for by political activist and local hero Betico Croes. Aruba obtained a separate status as an autonomous country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Arikok National Park on Aruba
Oranjestad, the capital of the Dutch island of Aruba
Museo Historico Aruba, located in a restored military fort built in 1798
Sadly Dutch Caribbean was not included in WU4, pretty bad terrain quality here, moving on
Arriving on Curaçao at Lagun
Curaçao became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 2010 in a change of constitutional status that dissolved the Netherlands Antilles
Willemstad, the capital city of Curaçao
Schottegat (bay)
Curaçao
Willemstad with the floating Queen Emma bridge and blue Queen Juliana Bridge
Kura Hulanda Museum documenting the dark past of the Dutch Antilles
Between 1662 and 1669, Domingo Grillo and Ambrosio Lomelín shipped 24,000 enslaved people, assisted by the Dutch West India Company and the Royal African Company from Jamaica
On to Bonaire, the third of the ABC islands
Bonaire was part of the Netherlands Antilles until the country’s dissolution in 2010, when the island became a special municipality within the country of the Netherlands. Together with Sint Eustatius and Saba they are now part of Caribbean Netherlands. (Sint Maarten became a constituent country in 2010, same status as Aruba and Curaçao. Suriname gained independence in 1975)
Flamingo Airport aka Bonaire International Airport in Kralendijk, capital of Bonaire
Washington-Slagbaai National Park
Bonaire Cruise Port in Kralendijk
Islas Las Aves, Federal Dependencies of Venezuela
Archipiélago Las Aves
Landing at Dos Mosquises Airport
https://i.imgur.com/4KhcI7g.png
Crasqui island on the middle right
https://i.imgur.com/ldCiaX1.png
Landing on Gran Roque Island
https://i.imgur.com/6OBpUdL.png
Archipielago de Los Roques
https://i.imgur.com/ud9nORz.png
Last stop today at Isla La Orchilla
https://i.imgur.com/mnYuLk9.png
A couple more islands then back to the mainland next leg.