Saturday - Heading for San Juan, Puerto Rico
The sky over North Carolina from 38,000 feet (High|Med)
The "Sea Princess" was docked opposite us in San Juan (High|Med)
A cool tug boat (High|Med)
This ship was docked perpendicular to us (from my veranda) (High|Med)
Cathedral in San Juan (High|Med)
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Air National Guard airfield with Blackhawks on the tarmac (High|Med)
Drama, as an apparent drug bust went down. The small lear jet (you see its rear) was racing down the runway, chased by a phalanx of police cars, then two helicopters landed in front of it to make it stop.
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Perpendicularly docked ship, a bit lit up (High|Med)
"Sea Princess" a bit lit up (High|Med)
"Sea Princess" at night, all lit up (High|Med)
Watermelon Viking - This is one of a dozen or so very ornate watermelon carvings onboard for decoration (High|Med)
Very cool blown-glass chandelier (High|Med)
What luxury cruise ship would be complete without *real wood* paneled IBM flatpanel and keyboard, on a suede-covered desk. There were 10 of these in the "online" room (High|Med)
Singling out the keyboard (High|Med)
"Gym" facility featured lots of equipment, aerobics, etc. It was in the front of the boat encased in glass so you could "bike" or "jog" while looking out. Pretty cool (High|Med)
Blurry shot (rushed) of the 18+ pool area where much time was spent (High|Med)
Shot over the main pool area (closed, drained, w/ netting over it. All pools were sea water with a little chlorine (High|Med)
Deck 12 had a nice full-sized basketball court (High|Med)
The aft grill called "Seaside Grill" served casual dining (High|Med)
Cute Christmas arrangement (High|Med)
The starboard aft cafe served pizza and pasta (High|Med)
Don't forget the ice cream/frozen yogurt! (High|Med)
Several scattered ping-pong tables (High|Med)
Main dining in the San Marco on decks 4 and 5 (taken from deck 5 looking down) (High|Med)
A gingerbread house and ship (High|Med)
In the casino, slot machines - Won $18 dollars (High|Med)
... Blackjack table ate $20 ;) (High|Med)
Sunday - Fredriksted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
Land Ho! St. Croix from the veranda (High|Med)
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Again, closer (High|Med)
Hey, Greg- It's a police boat! (High|Med)
The wide-shot of the ship, from dock (High|Med)
Again, different angle (High|Med)
Head-on (High|Med)
Underwater sequence from Buck Island National Park while snorkeling. Quality sucks as the waves prevented steady shooting. Most of them have been filtered out. All pics with the D-450
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On the way back to St. Croix, with my C-2100
Here you can see Buck Island, the turqoise protected water, the reef (where the waves are) and then the darker water of the sea (High|Med)
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Buck Island has a park ranger, who lives on the island here. Note the wind. (High|Med)
A catamaran I particularly liked (High|Med)
Rainbow over Fredriksted (High|Med)
Monday - Castries, St. Lucia
St. Lucia looming at sunrise on approach (High|Med)
Castries lighthouse, with catamaran in front (High|Med)
Zoom on lighthouse (High|Med)
A particularly pretty house on the water that I'd like (High|Med)
Different angle of the same lighthouse (High|Med)
The ship, attached to a huge moored anchor (High|Med)
Ah, to live on an island, at the mouth of Castries harbor (High|Med)
Elevated shot of Castries harbor. My ship is the one with the "X" (High|Med)
The Petit Piton and Gros Piton (respectively) are collectively known as "the Pitons". There is also a local beer called "Piton Beer" (High|Med)
Wide-angle shot of the Pitons looming over the city of Soufriere (High|Med)
Soufriere is French for "Sulfur in the air". It's named this because a) it has a black-sand beach because of b) it has a semi-active volcano that generates heaps of sulfur ash and smells about as foul as one could imagine. This series is of that volcano (which you can, literally, drive into)
Ash and steam (High|Med)
Wider ash-and-steam shot, with the volcano rim (High|Med)
Nice contrasted shot, ash, steam, lush vegetation, sky, clouds... (High|Med)
Boiling mud is the main attraction to this smelly place (High|Med)
Another shot, more "active" (High|Med)
Then there is the rain forest and botanical gardens inland a bit (not smelly)
This waterfall is about 60feet high or so (High|Med)
A wax lily (I think) (High|Med)
Some yellow flower (High|Med)
Bird of Paradise (High|Med)
Caribbean Morning Glory (High|Med)
Wide shot of a pointsetta tree (High|Med)
Zoom on flowering part (High|Med)
Gecko :) (High|Med)
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"The largest bannana plantation" (High|Med)
An "oopsie" that I particularly liked (High|Med)
A shot of Marigot Bay (High|Med)
Tuesday, Bridgetown, Barbados
Rum is made here (High|Med)
Dockside shot of the ship (High|Med)
Snorkeling with sea turtles
On the way, I saw a catamaran I'd like (High|Med)
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There is a sea turtle there (High|Med)
... And there (High|Med)
Sunset sequence
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Thursday, St. Johns, Antigua
St. John's Harbor from the veranda (High|Med)
Anglican Church, aptly named St. John's (High|Med)
An endangered native of the eastern caribbean, the Caribbean Tern (High|Med)
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Next three are left/center/right pictures to be stitched into a panorama sometime, maybe, if I'm not lazy.
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Took a wonderful "eco-tour" which consisted of kayaking around a mangrove-lined bay, hiking up Bird Island and snorkeling around the reef next to it. It was the clearest water, schools of parrot fish, blue tangs, and squid, along with a moray eel, baracuda, lots of coral and angel fish and others.
This lady hostessed the cabin where the tour departed from, and had a gorgeous parrot (High|Med)
Again, but different (High|Med)
From the top of Bird Island, looking towards New York- Some islands, and a rainstorm that we hit later that night after setting sail (High|Med)
... looking down at our boat in the bay (High|Med)
... looking at another island towards the "mainland" (High|Med)
... wide shot of the same (High|Med)
Crikey! It's the rare Bird Island skink! (High|Med)
A fairly large blow-hole (High|Med)
... different angle (High|Med)
In this series, there is a bird. It's a white-tailed, red-billed white bird.
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On the way out of port, looking back at a couple other cruise ships still at port (High|Med)
Also on the way out, a picturesque wreck (High|Med)
Friday, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
A four picture sequence to be stitched into a panorama sometime (left-to-right)
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oooOOOooh a reef shark (High|Med)
oooOOOooh a sting ray (High|Med)
Shark from the depths (High|Med)
Three picture sequence off of St. Thomas looking at some of the other islands
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Sleeping sea turtle on the beachish! :-D
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Some more pictures of things underwater
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A Caribbean Duck (High|Med)
A little tiny baby tortoise (High|Med)
On shore @ Magen's Bay, build sand castles and sand turtles
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The view of the bay from my castle (High|Med)
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Shot of the harbor (Constellation is the middle ship) (High|Med)
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Two shots of St. Thomas as we were leaving. I kept them because even though they are blurred, there is something about them that saved them from the delete button.
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