Thursday's Animal - Elephant | Bigkitty Gallery

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Neat view of the cables on the Sagamore Bridge

Even I-495 is covered!

Driving by the Cape Cod Canal

That is a STOP sign...you can barely see the red under the snow.

Road...what road...just follow the tire tracks.

The wet snow is just pulling everything down!

Cool snowy view of the back of the house.

Steve's trying to get the car cleaned off to leave, but the snow keeps falling.

The green door is turning white!

Snow stuck to everything!

The snowman moved out of the way of the car.

Is this a better place to stand?

Heading out for some nice photos.

A couple of feet of snow!

Can you get the car to reverse?

Oh oh...wrong place to stand!

What happens when you clean your car without a scraper.

The wet snow stuck to everything!

Lots of wet snow fell this year.

Rahmesh Swimming

Ojas and his human friends

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

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

Stealth fighter jet

End view of USS Intrepid

USS Intrepid Museum with many planes...

Orange tail one: UH-1A Huey

Yellow one is: Sikorsky HO4S-3G (H-19) Chicka

Wider shot of the Flight Deck

Flight Deck of USS Intrepid

Plane on USS Intrepid

Closer view of the Stealth Fighter

The Statue of Liberty in the morning sun.

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

Moving closer to the end of our trip.

Sunrise on our way back to NYC

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

Sideview of Elephant

Thursday's Animal - Elephant

Sun glistening on the blue water....

General view at port

Beautiful color water

The port at Freeport

Unsure of what animal...any thoughts?

NCL welcome sign of Chocoholic Buffet

White Chocolate Piano

Chocolate Piano

Asian inspired chocolate sculpture

Sugar coral reef

Modern chocolate art

Interesting ice and fruit sculpture

Chocolate coral reef

Nice chocolate design

Chocolate Sculpture

Coral reef of sugar...

Graceful ice bird...

Looks like a greek god...

The ship is all chocolate!

Brian and Cheryl go shopping

Brian and Cheryl

Brad and Cheryl

Sideview of Sitting Pig

Wednesday's Animal - Sitting Pig

Close-up of crossbones and skull

Pirate Museum of Nassau (outside)

"You laughing at me?"

Cheryl befriends a pirate

Erica is held captive

Blackbeard battling

The Pirates' Code of Conduct

Onboard surgery

Life at sea information

You lived with your food.

Living quarters on the ship

How they loaded cargo

ship: Revenge at port

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

Entering the Pirate Museum

Groove in the wall from the drawbridge

Defending the Bahamas

Life in service of the Military

More information

Letter from a military man

Stephen was caught!

Information about weapons

The Military Storehouse of Our Island

Lord Dunmore's thoughts

Map of Americas

Captain Woodes Rogers' journal

More Pirate Artifacts

Pirate Artifacts

The well is VERY deep...

Pirate paintings

Cover to orginal well

See how thick the castle walls were...

Walking around in port

Beer Lane, London, England 1735

Why Did Pirates Disappear?

Waiting for a Hanged Pirate

Contraptions to hold pirates

Inside the jail

Read Elding Info

This cannon could hit our ship too!

Press Yard Info

Fort Charlotte main entrance

Above Fort Charlotte

Fort Nassau September 15, 1718

Bahama Island Coat of Arms

Rest of Fort Charlotte Information

Fort Charlotte Information

Ships at port...

Nassau's Lighthouse

Edward Teach (Blackbeard)

A marooned pirate

Pirates with the islanders

True, pirates were black

Black pirates in the Caribbean?

True, pirates had parrots

Many pirates kept parrots...T/F?

Dividing the Loot

The Attractions of Piracy

Timeline: Nassau Harbour

Explaining how gross it was

Conditions below deck

Life in the Merchant Navy

Barrels on a ship

The "Revenge" ship info

Shanty Town mock-up

Aft of a ship decorations

Steve (brother) at bottom of the staircase

Walls of the Queen's Staircase

65 steps down...

Queen's Staircase

Now the lizard poses

Another lizard basking

Fort Stanley and Fort D'Arcy

Touissaint Louverture

The Regiments of Fort Charlotte

People of Fort Charlotte

Purpose of holes in the casemate

Cannon view from above

This cannon can shoot our ship!

Building Fort Charlotte

Who built Fort Charlotte?

Shows how some stuff was stored

What Lord Dunmore has done

Nassau Water Tower

Entrance into Nassau

What has become of the old well?

Norwegian Gem at port

Military lizard

Closer cannon view

Lord Dunmore's cell

Fort Fincastle's guns

Fort Fincastle information

To Set a Warship Ablaze

Who carved the graffiti?

Gain Knowledge of these Fortress Guns

War! And Peace?

Strengthening the Defenses

Part of Providence Island

The Hilltop Fortress

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

The Ruths talking to the guide

Why These Places Have Failed Us

Fortifying New Providence

Andrew Deveaux Jr., Don Juan Manuel de Cagigal, and Esek Hopkins

Christopher Columbus, Woodes Rogers and Edward Teach

Conflicts in the New World

Walking in Fort Charlotte

Another view of Fort Charlotte

Fort Finncastle (different angle)

What you see when looking straight up on the Queen's Staircase

Foliage around the Queen's Staircase

Erica at the top of the Queen's Staircase

In Defence of Nassau

Fort Finncastle and the Water tower

The Fine Forts of Nassau

See for Yourself

NCL Gem as seen from Fort Fincastle

Outside the cells

Information about cannons used there

Bahamas Historic Plaque for Fort Fincastle

Outside of the fort

Fort Fincastle story

Sir Milo Boughton Butler

The statue of the Bahamian Woman

The front of the Norwegian Gem

NCL Gem boat artwork

Mom Calhoun and Stephen

Seal head out of water

Tuesday's Animal - Seal

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

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

Almost every room has a view...

Approaching the unloading zone...

Love the artwork on the sides...

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

On the tender boat back to the Gem

A orange butterfly

Butterfly is in the middle of the picture...

Butterflies and lizards on our walk...

Brian likes this one...

Sideview of the NCL Gem

Nice scenary...

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

Snails finding homes in the nooks and crannies...

Older snail colony...

Life in a wave pool...

Love how the waves looked here...

That way is were everyone else was...

Just a beautiful island!

Crystal clear water...

Waves bring food to the snails

Snails all over the rocks

Couple of rock islands at the place...

NCL Gem from the tender boat

Great Stirup Cay water...beautiful blue.

Great Stirup Cay

Tender boat to take us to the island.

Sideview of Penguin

Monday's Towel animal - Penguin

Rockets that are used with the shuttles

Explorer Shuttle on display

Bald Eagle flying around

Top of Saturn 5 Rocket

Saturn 5 rocket

other side of people shuttle

The hole they climb into the shuttle

People part of the shuttle

Near the top of the shuttle

Back of the top of the shuttle

The antena of the Rover

How to drive on the moon

View 2 of Rover

Lunar Rover 1 view

Rover Info continued

Luner Roving Vehicle info

Only half of the Saturn 5 rocket

My father-in-law under the Saturn 5 rocket

The backend of a rocket

Another satellite

Satellite on display

5 engines to thurst up the rocket

Head-on view of the rocket engines

Rocket engines up close

Mock shuttle command

The the shuttles are assembled

This building is the height of 2 football fields

Close-up view of the runway

Starting point of roll out runway

Roll way road made of gravel

End of roll out run-way

Info at look out tower

Launch Pad 39A info

Another view of 39A

STS-125 mission on Launch pad 39A

The signs states to drive slowly!

We're getting closer...

NASA buildings off in the background

Retired launch pads

Heading into port

Getting closer to the main land

Coastal rocket launchers

The east coast of Florida

Approaching the land

Look at that ocean color!

NCL Gem Pool Deck

Side of the Bulldog

Sunday's animal - bulldog

Deadly Dinner for 2

Anne (Erica's mom)

Brad (Brian's dad)

Brian and his mom (Cheryl)

Brian and Erica...

Erica on the balcony...

View off our balcony

Good food and wine

Hanging out on the Waterfront

Brookline Bridge...maybe?

Another view of her.

Isn't she beautiful?

Almost in front of her.

Statue of Liberty's left side

Coming closer to the lady

Brooklin Bridge

Statue from a far

Statue of Liberty

Closer to the open sea

Leaving the terminal

Manhatten Terminal

Passing the Staten Island Ferry

Lady Liberty's face close up

Lady Liberty at dusk

Suryia, Bubbles, Buggy

Govinda and Sloka

Suryia by the Pool Side

Aries the Liger Baby Swimming

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