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Posted on: Saturday 10 October 2009
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Albums: Vacations / 2009 NCL Gem to Florida and the Bahamas / Freeport, our last port of call... / Swimming with dolphins

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!

Ball Lake over view

Another look at the lighthouse in winter.

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

Older snail colony...

Fort Charlotte main entrance

Snails all over the rocks

Isn't she beautiful?

65 steps down...

Now the lizard poses

Nassau Water Tower

Statue from a far

"You laughing at me?"

Deadly Dinner for 2

Cheryl befriends a pirate

Brooklin Bridge

Couple of rock islands at the place...

Fort Fincastle's guns

Approaching the land

See how thick the castle walls were...

Cannon view from above

Queen's Staircase

Steve (brother) at bottom of the staircase

Brian and his mom (Cheryl)

On the tender boat back to the Gem

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

Groove in the wall from the drawbridge

Nassau's Lighthouse

NCL Gem from the tender boat

The well is VERY deep...

Sunday's animal - bulldog

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...

Erica is held captive

Another view of her.

The signs states to drive slowly!

More information

This cannon can shoot our ship!

Ships at port...

Side of the Bulldog

How they loaded cargo

Sideview of Penguin

Butterfly is in the middle of the picture...

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.

Information about weapons

Brookline Bridge...maybe?

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

Seal head out of water

Fort Fincastle information

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...

Stealth fighter jet

Crystal clear water...

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

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

Norwegian Gem at port

Rockets that are used with the shuttles

Nice scenary...

Life in a wave pool...

The backend of a rocket

One dolphin waiting

Just a beautiful island!

other side of people shuttle

Living quarters on the ship

Manhatten Terminal

Blackbeard battling

Butterflies and lizards on our walk...

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

Brad (Brian's dad)

Life at sea information

Onboard surgery

Roll way road made of gravel

Another satellite

5 engines to thurst up the rocket

Luner Roving Vehicle info

Chocolate coral reef

Near the top of the shuttle

Rocket engines up close

The ship is all chocolate!

People part of the shuttle

Bald Eagle flying around

White Chocolate Piano

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

Almost every room has a view...

View 2 of Rover

Explorer Shuttle on display

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

Satellite on display

Moving closer to the end of our trip.

A orange butterfly

The hole they climb into the shuttle

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

She felt like wet rubber

Rover Info continued

The antena of the Rover

The east coast of Florida

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

Brian likes this one...

Her name is Cocoon...from the movie.

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

Chocolate Sculpture

Interesting ice and fruit sculpture

Where did she go?

Looks like a greek god...

She loved belly scratches...

Coral reef of sugar...

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!

Last swim of the time we had together!

Sun glistening on the blue water....

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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