All gone...what a beauty to watch! | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Sunday 17 February 2008
Posted on: Thursday 1 January 2009
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Waves breaking in the ocean

Black-Crowned Night-Heron

There is a seal head there...

The wave is here

Dreaming of younger days...

Upper: Louisiana [aka Tricolor] Heron Lower: Purple Gullinule

Trees around Dad's house

Airplants growing on trees

Boy, that ocean is rumbling.

Tree up-shot, we love these.

A mature air plant with flower stem

Enjoying the ocean view

Seal head...clearer

Anything could be beyond...

What is out there?

Anhinga and Common Cooter turtle

Drying out - Anhinga

Little tracks left

More breaking waves

Left: Anhinga paddling Right: Anhinga drying

Upper: Louisiana [aka Tricolor] Heron Lower: Purple Gallinule

Over head...clouds

Front door entry way lined with plants.

Common Cooter Turtle

Dad and Penny cooking...

Little Blue Heron

Left: Little Blue Heron Right: Anhinga

The water washes up...

Backside of an Anhinga

Another view (officially Pileated Woodpecker)

Woody Woodpecker in person

Wonderful kitchen

Why not collect shells at 20 degrees?

Now this is how to fly a kite!

Erosion lines visable

Dad, Erica, and Penny

Typical scene on a beach

Is the world realy round? Looks flat!

Changing weather

Let it go a bit higher...

Winter means bird beach, not human!

Another look at the lighthouse in winter.

Ball Lake over view

This kite flies well!

Everything washes up, including a seal skeleton.

Nauset Lighthouse

Come on it's fun!

Going down soon

Hey this is our beach now!

Dad and Penny enjoying the dock on the private beach.

Clouds floating around

Rest of the lanai

Sun starting to set.

Entering the Pirate Museum

Rainbow at sunset

Penny on the lanai

Any good shells?

Great Stirup Cay

Private community beach.

Basic oyster bar

Now we have to leave!

Just about there

Defending the Bahamas

A grown up oyster bar, now a mangrove tree island.

Statues in the windows of the town when pirates were around.

This is how close we were while kayaking.

Tender boat to take us to the island.

Another lizard basking

Above Fort Charlotte

All gone...what a beauty to watch!

View off our balcony

Entrance into Nassau

ship: Revenge at port

Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty's left side

Lord Dunmore's cell

Rest of Fort Charlotte Information

Walls of the Queen's Staircase

Fort Charlotte main entrance

Snails all over the rocks

Older snail colony...

Isn't she beautiful?

65 steps down...

Nassau Water Tower

Now the lizard poses

Statue from a far

"You laughing at me?"

Cheryl befriends a pirate

Deadly Dinner for 2

Brooklin Bridge

Fort Fincastle's guns

Couple of rock islands at the place...

Approaching the land

See how thick the castle walls were...

Cannon view from above

Steve (brother) at bottom of the staircase

Queen's Staircase

Brian and his mom (Cheryl)

On the tender boat back to the Gem

NCL ships all seem to smile on the front...

Nassau's Lighthouse

Groove in the wall from the drawbridge

NCL Gem from the tender boat

Sunday's animal - bulldog

The well is VERY deep...

Snails finding homes in the nooks and crannies...

Pirate Museum of Nassau (outside)

Closer cannon view

Sideview of the NCL Gem

Almost in front of her.

Tuesday's Animal - Seal

Leaving the terminal

That way is were everyone else was...

Life in service of the Military

NCL welcome sign of Chocoholic Buffet

Approaching the unloading zone...

Another view of her.

The signs states to drive slowly!

Ships at port...

More information

Erica is held captive

This cannon can shoot our ship!

Side of the Bulldog

How they loaded cargo

Butterfly is in the middle of the picture...

Sideview of Penguin

Closer to the open sea

The Military Storehouse of Our Island

Brian and Erica...

Great Stirup Cay water...beautiful blue.

Fort Charlotte Information

You lived with your food.

Brookline Bridge...maybe?

Information about weapons

Fort Fincastle information

Erica on the island...not a good picture....

Seal head out of water

Coming closer to the lady

Lord Dunmore's thoughts

This cannon could hit our ship too!

Letter from a military man

Erica on the balcony...

Crystal clear water...

Closer to our room...30 minutes of tendering later...

Stealth fighter jet

Love the artwork on the sides...

The Pirates' Code of Conduct

A group petting of a dolphin

Waves bring food to the snails

Military lizard

Rockets that are used with the shuttles

Norwegian Gem at port

Nice scenary...

Life in a wave pool...

The backend of a rocket

One dolphin waiting

Just a beautiful island!

Living quarters on the ship

other side of people shuttle

Manhatten Terminal

Butterflies and lizards on our walk...

Blackbeard battling

The port at Freeport

Launch Pad 39A info

End of roll out run-way

Coastal rocket launchers

Love how the waves looked here...

Cover to orginal well

This building is the height of 2 football fields

Anne (Erica's mom)

Retired launch pads

STS-125 mission on Launch pad 39A

Life at sea information

Brad (Brian's dad)

Another satellite

Roll way road made of gravel

Onboard surgery

5 engines to thurst up the rocket

Chocolate coral reef

Luner Roving Vehicle info

Near the top of the shuttle

Rocket engines up close

Bald Eagle flying around

The ship is all chocolate!

People part of the shuttle

White Chocolate Piano

Our balcony has the white spot on the glass...middle of picture...

View 2 of Rover

Almost every room has a view...

Our cabin balcony...2 up from back of #9 boat.

Explorer Shuttle on display

Satellite on display

Moving closer to the end of our trip.

The hole they climb into the shuttle

A orange butterfly

End view of USS Intrepid

NASA buildings off in the background

Our balcony...it had some great views this vacation!

Starting point of roll out runway

Lunar Rover 1 view

Getting closer to the main land

Monday's Towel animal - Penguin

The the shuttles are assembled

The Statue of Liberty in the morning sun.

We're getting closer...

Don't these humans look silly!

Close-up of crossbones and skull

Look at that ocean color!

Head-on view of the rocket engines

USS Intrepid Museum with many planes...

This is AWESOME!

Saturn 5 rocket

Mock shuttle command

Only half of the Saturn 5 rocket

Sunrise on our way back to NYC

Info at look out tower

Back of the top of the shuttle

Heading into port

Sugar coral reef

My father-in-law under the Saturn 5 rocket

The start of our group swim.

Another view of 39A

Rover Info continued

The east coast of Florida

She felt like wet rubber

The antena of the Rover

Sideview of Sitting Pig

2 of 4 of the dolphins

Adan (on right) with friend...the best greeter in the AM!

Top of Saturn 5 Rocket

Her name is Cocoon...from the movie.

Brian likes this one...

Both of us kept with this dolphin

One popped up behind me.

Nice chocolate design

How to drive on the moon

Close-up view of the runway

Wednesday's Animal - Sitting Pig

Interesting ice and fruit sculpture

Chocolate Sculpture

Looks like a greek god...

Where did she go?

Coral reef of sugar...

She loved belly scratches...

All of the dolphins are female...

They were getting impatient...

Reaching for the dolphin

Trainers gettting ready for our swim.

Thursday's Animal - Elephant

Chocolate Piano

Graceful ice bird...

Modern chocolate art

Our dolphins waiting.

I enjoyed this greatly!

Asian inspired chocolate sculpture

General view at port

She is so fun to swim with!

Sun glistening on the blue water....

Last swim of the time we had together!

Sideview of Elephant

They are 6 feet long.

Close-up...are you sure it's an elephant?

We swam around for about 30 minutes.

We're both enjoying the swim

Beautiful color water

Different fish swimming

Hey look out....

Gray fish with a black dot

Overhead view of coral

Sea urchin hiding...

Close-up with Yellow/black fish

Under the ocean

Blue fish closer to us.

Small yellow fish

Country living in the reef.

Gray fish swimming

Sand covered coral

Different coral

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