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Chogogo Tours

Chogogo Tours takes pride in being a multi- and expanding our wheelchair-accessible
service operator of tour & transfer vehicles for tour options.
any and all purposes. Their knowledgeable
team has an excellent reputation in the field
of normal and disabled access transport, with
a specialization in open-air and closed bus-
es and minivans.
Their latest additions to the ever-expand-
Through our diversity of buses and vans, they ing fleet include two air-conditioned vans
offer customized transport to suit your party’s that can seat up to 12 guests but are also
needs – from private or group island tours and equipped with lifts to make them accessible
discount party buses to port/airport transfers, to wheelchairs.
and if needed, all with wheelchair access. As So whether it is a transfer for your party, an
of September 2019, Chogogo Tours has up- Island or Beach Hopping Tour or their famous
graded its services for disabled or less-mobile Bar Hopping Tour on one of our Party Buses,
visitors, offering rental beach wheelchairs Chogogo Tours is the tour operator for you.q

Aruba’s Bocas: home to the rarest fossil reefs on the planet!

(Oranjestad)—If you’ve been Aldo Moro, presented their thousands of years, and the
to the northern coast of Aru- research on these fossilized effects that this fluctuation
ba already, you’ve probably coral reefs at the University has had on the coral reefs of
noticed how the ground dif- of Aruba. Their focus for their the windward side of Aruba.
fers entirely from the sandy research included study-
beaches on the southern ing the health and forma- These findings can certainly
part of the island. These hard tion patterns of these coral put things into perspective.
surfaces, with sharp bumps reefs, and to investigate how The ground on which we
and holes are actually fos- these reefs have responded have walked many times
silized coral reefs, of which and can respond to fluctu- in the northern part of the
its growth and changes can ating sea levels or extreme island hold such rich history,
be traced back to the last weather, like hurricanes and history that dates back to
glacial period. tsunamis. a time that most of us can-
not even imagine. As the
On May 30 2023, geosci- Through underwater and scientists themselves have
entists, Dr. Patrick Boyden land surveillance, and 3D pointed out, these fossilized This research is also important you are ever visiting one of
from the Marum research models of the reefs, they reefs on the windward side for the future of coral reefs on the bocas or driving along
faculty at the University of were able to narrow down are truly an incredible and the island. By studying rising the northern part of the is-
Bremen, Prof. dr. Alessio Ro- when these formations start- rare remnant of geologi- sea levels and climate im- land, please be conscious
vere from the Ca' Foscari Uni- ed to take place. They were cal history, as they provide pact on these coral reefs, we to help protect our natural
versity of Venice and Prof. also able to track the fluc- a clear view of how these are able to take concrete historical remnant. Oh, and
dr. Gianfranco Scicchitano, tuation of sea levels during reefs have formed. action in protecting and pre- wear (coral-friendly) sun-
from the University of Bari the past hundred or even serving our coral reefs. So, if screen! q