We went to see the rocks today

Quartz Diorite. Or Tonalite. Or Hooibergite.
Since we have now been here for a week, we are running out of things to do. We took the bikes today and cycled the 8.8 km to see the famous rocks at Casibari. Very unique rock formations. These huge boulders pop up out of the ground over an area of about a half square kilometer in the center of the island.

They have become a tourist attraction and they have even mounted steps on the largest of them. It is also said to have been a religious site for the Arawoks.

I have checked quite a few websites in an effort to confirm that these types of rocks, referred to as hooibergites by the locals, only do exist in Canada, Iceland and Aruba as claimed in the Aruba tourist information provided at the Arikok National Park. I wasn't able to find anything at all to verify this and as I said I have not found any reference in any geology sites to Hooibergite as a type of rock. A Hooiberg is actually a Dutch word for haystack which is the name of the mountain nearby. All my research so far indicates these rocks may actually be quartz diorite.
Enough geology and back to the creatures. I got a pretty snap of the popular Aruban Whiptail Lizard or Kododo. Aren't they pretty?

Tomorrow we'll take the bikes to visit a church on the other side of the island. Or should we go and see the Ayo rock formations...
I think we're both ready to set sail again. Our next destination is Colombia but our weather window isn't till Monday. We have a few more days to spend in Aruba.