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La Finca - A Dominican Fruit Farm

…and every variety of fruit tree one can imagine provide for plenty of shade and rustling breezes on this small but very productive organic farm.

Welcome to La Finca - Front Living Room View

…this is the Front Living Room, #1 in a series of 6 nodes photographed at this location on Christmas Day, 2006. WWP-Best of 2006.

Playa Dorada - Puerto Plata

Puerto Plata and it’s Gold Coast provide a significant proportion of the area’s economic base being one of the earliest and finest vacation beach resort environments on the planet.

The Caribbean Connection - Adrian Tropical Malecon

Here’s a delightful spot along the Malecon in Santo Domingo, good for a refreshing beer or fresh fruit juice, also renowned for it’s classic Dominican menu…No matter what you come for, each guest is greeted with a sampling of “Sancocho”

Bavaro Beach, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

…this January, 2006 QTVR Pano image simply cannot duplicate the fresh salt air breezes, warm sun on white sand and cool turquoise blue waters.

Basilica de Higuey - Dominican Republic

Basilica de Higuey photographed in late December 2006.

The Entryway and Sitting Room - Santo Domingo, Rep. Dom., 2009

Careful observation in this scene reveals a few ghosted canines actively perusing their place in this space…after all, it is their home and sanctuary too!

José Antonio's Traditional Dominican Cucina (Kitchen)

…a peek inside the traditionally constructed cucina and reflects the relative simplicity, sensibility, and cleanliness of Dominican cooking and the traditional caribbean lifestyle in practice here.

Family Group Panorama Portrait with Federico

We had the wonderful pleasure to spend a Sunday afternoon at Robert and Andrea’s home in Santo Domingo. Federico is the patriarch of this great group of Dominicans, 3 generations strong…

View From The Bridge of the Schooner Bar

…not only serves up great food and a sublime dockside atmosphere on the border of the Caribbean Sea…

Parque Colon - Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.

…the perfect spot to have a good meal in one of the welcoming, informal restaurants on El Conde Street, then enjoy an evening walk, smoke a fine Dominican grown, hand-rolled cigar, buy an ice cream, a fine Santo Domingo expresso, El Presidente beer, or Brugal Extra Viejo rum over ice.

Entrance - The First Cathedral of America

The First Cathedral of America in the Old Colonial City of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Photogaphed and stitched January, 2007. This image was deliberately color adjusted.

Catedral Primada de America - First Cathedral of America

The First Cathedral of the Americas, the birth place of “The New World” and western culture as we know it.

Palacio Consistoria Museo, Villa de Santo Domingo

The mural in these chambers depicts the important early developments of spanish christian settlement here and the eventual fate of the Taino indians who originally inhabited this place, the birthplace of the americas.

Old Colonial City - Santo Domingo Bell Tower

First pano of The Old Colonial Village, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. This view from bell tower atop the mayors office and overlooking the first cathedral of the americas as well as many other important historical monuments from the turn of the 14th century on.