{"id":3629,"date":"2026-01-15T22:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:05:17","slug":"a-cactus-fence-in-bonaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/a-cactus-fence-in-bonaire\/","title":{"rendered":"A cactus fence in Bonaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I liked about visiting Bonaire was that one could drive around the perimeter of the island and find multiple access points to the water – some were official beaches, others were just simple paths to the water. In this case, as I’m following the path to the ocean, I realized that the “fence” along the property to the left of the path is made entirely of cactus (or should I say “cacti?”).<\/p>\n

What I find interesting is that it’s not like the cacti have been harvested and lined up like this – as you can see, they’re all planted in the ground and are living plants. Whoever decided they wanted to fence off their property, they actually planted all of these cacti in a row to make this natural wall.<\/p>\n

Considering the prickly nature of cacti, it’s certainly an effective method of fencing off a property – I sure wouldn’t try getting over or around this fence!<\/p>\n

Here’s another look at a different part of the cactus fence – it’s very uniform, the way alternating cacti lean in opposite directions. I’d say a real creative person made this cactus fence!<\/p>\n

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A uniform cactus fence as seen in Bonaire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things I liked about visiting Bonaire was that one could drive around the perimeter of the island and find multiple access points to the water – some were official beaches, others were just simple paths to the water. In this case, as I’m following the path to the ocean, I realized that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36,50],"tags":[865,866,867,868],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-photography","category-photo-of-the-day","category-travel-explore","tag-bonaire","tag-cacti","tag-cactus","tag-fence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}