Desert Reef | Bigkitty Gallery

Posted on: Saturday 3 October 2009
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Albums: Vacations / 2009 NCL Gem to Florida and the Bahamas / Nassau

no coral here...

Entering the Pirate Museum

The statue of the Bahamian Woman

NCL Gem as seen from Fort Fincastle

Fort Fincastle story

Defending the Bahamas

In Defence of Nassau

Sir Milo Boughton Butler

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

Outside of the fort

The Fine Forts of Nassau

Above Fort Charlotte

Another lizard basking

Outside the cells

ship: Revenge at port

Entrance into Nassau

Information about cannons used there

Rest of Fort Charlotte Information

Lord Dunmore's cell

Walls of the Queen's Staircase

Bahamas Historic Plaque for Fort Fincastle

Fort Charlotte main entrance

Nassau Water Tower

Mom Calhoun and Stephen

Now the lizard poses

65 steps down...

Fort Finncastle and the Water tower

"You laughing at me?"

Erica at the top of the Queen's Staircase

Cheryl befriends a pirate

Fort Fincastle's guns

Cannon view from above

See how thick the castle walls were...

Queen's Staircase

Steve (brother) at bottom of the staircase

Nassau's Lighthouse

Groove in the wall from the drawbridge

The well is VERY deep...

Pirate Museum of Nassau (outside)

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

Closer cannon view

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

Erica is held captive

More information

Life in service of the Military

This cannon can shoot our ship!

Ships at port...

How they loaded cargo

Walking in Fort Charlotte

The Military Storehouse of Our Island

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

Fort Charlotte Information

Foliage around the Queen's Staircase

Another view of Fort Charlotte

Information about weapons

Fort Fincastle information

You lived with your food.

Lord Dunmore's thoughts

This cannon could hit our ship too!

Letter from a military man

The Pirates' Code of Conduct

Gain Knowledge of these Fortress Guns

Captain Woodes Rogers' journal

Military lizard

Norwegian Gem at port

Strengthening the Defenses

See for Yourself

Christopher Columbus, Woodes Rogers and Edward Teach

Who carved the graffiti?

Fort Finncastle (different angle)

Blackbeard battling

Living quarters on the ship

Edward Teach (Blackbeard)

Fort Nassau September 15, 1718

Inside the jail

Map of Americas

Cover to orginal well

The Hilltop Fortress

Life at sea information

War! And Peace?

Onboard surgery

Why These Places Have Failed Us

Conflicts in the New World

To Set a Warship Ablaze

Purpose of holes in the casemate

Dividing the Loot

Stephen was caught!

Timeline: Nassau Harbour

Contraptions to hold pirates

Pirate paintings

Fortifying New Providence

Explaining how gross it was

Who built Fort Charlotte?

Press Yard Info

Close-up of crossbones and skull

Part of Providence Island

The Ruths talking to the guide

True, pirates were black

More Pirate Artifacts

Why Did Pirates Disappear?

The Regiments of Fort Charlotte

Read Elding Info

Walking around in port

What Lord Dunmore has done

Waiting for a Hanged Pirate

Pirate Artifacts

Fort Stanley and Fort D'Arcy

The Attractions of Piracy

Bahama Island Coat of Arms

Shanty Town mock-up

Shows how some stuff was stored

Black pirates in the Caribbean?

Conditions below deck

What has become of the old well?

The "Revenge" ship info

Barrels on a ship

People of Fort Charlotte

Pirates with the islanders

Many pirates kept parrots...T/F?

Life in the Merchant Navy

Beer Lane, London, England 1735

A marooned pirate

True, pirates had parrots

Aft of a ship decorations

Touissaint Louverture

Different fish swimming

Hey look out....

Building Fort Charlotte

Gray fish with a black dot

Overhead view of coral

Close-up with Yellow/black fish

Sea urchin hiding...

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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