Here's a special report from our sassy reporter on scene live in Curacao. None other than the team captain's wife, mrs. T. That'll keep you busy while we wait for the captain's blog. It's from a woman's point of view, so put on your pink glasses, sip on a cocktail with a flashy exotic paper umbrella, and read on...

Stardate: 20081116/01 Location: Cali, Columbia

And it’s all over…..
In Standard, Stef got silver, Mark, who had some bad luck on his last stages, managed to keep in medal position and claimed a bronze.

Stardate: 20081115/01 Location: Cali

We’re on the bus to the range at 7.00, an hours drive away. It’s early, so there’s still quite an impressive amount of mountain fog around.
The range is at the Punto de Mira hunting and shooting club, which caters to all shooting sports, plus a pool, restaurant, etc, is vast. Distances between stages are up to 300m. The stages are clean, and very nicely executed. While we expected a “hoser” match on the basis of the stage diagrams, some stages included 25m plates, and difficult shooting positions.

Stardate: 20081114/1 Location: Columbia
It’s now Friday 14th, and tomorrow we’ll finally do what we came to do…….

It’s our second full day in Cali.
Cali, to me, looks and feels like Belem in Brazil, but surrounded by mountains.

Stardate: 20081112/2 Location: Columbia
It’s now 9 o clock in Colombia, were at Bogota airport at 2.7km altitude, with this thin air, and the Colombian girls all around us, there’s REALLY no blood in my brain at the moment……

Stardate: 20081112/1. Location: Aruba.
This is teamcaptain Serge Tjin-Wong-Joe of the gunclub Suriname's away team, team SVS. We are on a continuing mission to seek out new medals and new trophees in the region and beyond.

The trip starts. Up at 2.00 in the morning. Paramaribo-Trinidad-Curacao-Aruba. The usual short island hops, that really wear you down, especially when hauling along guns and ammo as well. We’re bringing along .40 rounds for Mark, Stef, Rochelle and Ro, while Rabien and I will carry Winchester 9mm from Aruba to Colombia. The .40 BUL’s can be finicky with ammo, and we decided not to take chances for our Standard Division shooters.