Calm turquoise water off Aruba's south coast with a kayak far out near a low green islet

Vale's Rambo Adventures · Aruba

Gallery: the south coast, as we found it

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Straight from the water

Our own frames, our own mornings

Every photo and clip below came off one of our own tours on Aruba's south coast, shot on phones between paddle strokes and while the kayaks dried on the shore. Nothing here is stock and nothing is generated. The colors are whatever the light was doing that morning.

What the shore looks like on your day depends on the tide, so we keep taking pictures. Take this as a record of what the water has been doing lately rather than a forecast. Most of these frames were shot on the crossing to Sea Glass Island.

A concrete launch ramp running into shallow turquoise water between two tire-capped mooring posts, a low green islet on the horizon — The ramp, before anybody arrives

Yellow, red and green kayaks strapped to a trailer rack with life jackets hanging beneath, a turquoise kayak resting on the sand alongside — Boats loaded, paddles counted

A young mangrove growing out of a dense bed of aerial roots along a lagoon shore, the far side of the bay in the distance — Mangrove roots holding the lagoon together

A low mangrove islet with exposed roots meeting a rocky shoreline under a wide blue sky — A low green islet on the reef line

A wooded islet and a pale sand spit seen across a wide stretch of green-blue water from kayak height — The island, still a few strokes away

A dense carpet of frosted green and white sea glass mixed with coral pieces and beach pebbles — Glass and coral, ground down together

Drifts of small green and white sea glass packed into the gaps between pale coral boulders — Hunt low. The drifts hide in the rubble

A small spiral shell sitting on a bed of frosted green and white sea glass beside a finger of bleached coral — A shell parked on the frosted carpet

In motion

A few seconds of it moving

Short clips off the same departures, shot on the same phones. They play muted.

The haul, rinsed and opened in one hand

We filmed the crab and left it where it was

The open crossing, from kayak height

Frosted glass, held up to the light

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A hermit crab hauling its striped shell across a bed of green sea glass beside a pitted lump of coral — Someone else already lives here

Low evening light across a shoreline of green, white and amber sea glass mixed with coral stones — Late light through the frosted pieces

An open palm holding a wet handful of sea glass in cobalt, green, amber, red and milky white — One afternoon of hunting, in one hand

A single wind-shaped tree growing out of a rocky coral shore with surf breaking behind it — The tree that grew where nothing should

Two people in sun hats, seen from behind, watching a wave roll in at the rocky surf line under a warm evening sky — Watching the swell come in at golden hour

A double kayak ahead on flat water with the sun setting behind palm-roofed buildings, our own bow in the corner of the frame — The paddle home, into the sun

Several kayaks silhouetted on dark water under a broken orange and grey sky at dusk — The sunset departure, heading out

The sun sitting on the horizon over the Caribbean Sea with a single bird crossing the orange sky — The last of the light over the water

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About these pictures and clips

Nothing here is generated and nothing is bought. Every frame and every second of video was shot by our own crew on our own departures. Cropped, resized, and that is the whole of what was done to them.

The sea glass shots are not curated either. Some days the shore is thick with green and white. Other days the tide has buried it and you work harder for less. The tour is built around searching quieter south-coast water, conditions permitting. What the shore gives up on the day is up to the tide.

The company was founded by Rambo, a veteran Aruban ranger, who has worked this coast for decades and still stops the group to point at things.

Your turn

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Live availability and instant booking. Departures daily at 8:30 AM, 1:00 PM, and a sunset departure at 4:30 PM. About 2.5 hours on the water, with kayak, paddle, life jacket, water and fresh fruit included.

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Adults US$89.99. Children 6 to 12 US$69.99. Hotel pickup US$110 per vehicle, round trip. Book at valesramboadventures.com.

Gallery: the south coast, as we found it

Our own frames, our own mornings

A few seconds of it moving

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