Norwegian Gem | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Wednesday 15 April 2009
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Albums: Vacations / 2009 NCL Gem to Florida and the Bahamas
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Brian and Cheryl go shopping

Brian and Cheryl

Brad and Cheryl

Good food and wine

Hanging out on the Waterfront

Buffet Morning Greeter

The front of the Norwegian Gem

NCL Gem boat artwork

NCL Gem Pool Deck

Mom Calhoun and Stephen

Stephen was caught!

Map of Americas

Captain Woodes Rogers' journal

More Pirate Artifacts

Pirate Artifacts

Pirate paintings

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

Press Yard Info

Fort Nassau September 15, 1718

Bahama Island Coat of Arms

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

Fort Stanley and Fort D'Arcy

Touissaint Louverture

The Regiments of Fort Charlotte

People of Fort Charlotte

Purpose of holes in the casemate

Building Fort Charlotte

Who built Fort Charlotte?

Shows how some stuff was stored

What Lord Dunmore has done

What has become of the old well?

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

In Defence of Nassau

Fort Finncastle and the Water tower

The Fine Forts of Nassau

See for Yourself

Erica at the top of the Queen's Staircase

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

Passing the Staten Island Ferry

Flight Deck of USS Intrepid

Wider shot of the Flight Deck

Orange tail one: UH-1A Huey

Plane on USS Intrepid

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

Closer view of the Stealth Fighter

Lady Liberty's face close up

Lady Liberty at dusk

Unsure of what animal...any thoughts?

One dolphin waiting

2 of 4 of the dolphins

They were getting impatient...

All of the dolphins are female...

They are 6 feet long.

Trainers gettting ready for our swim.

Our dolphins waiting.

Don't these humans look silly!

The start of our group swim.

A group petting of a dolphin

One popped up behind me.

Last swim of the time we had together!

She is so fun to swim with!

This is AWESOME!

She felt like wet rubber

I enjoyed this greatly!

She loved belly scratches...

Both of us kept with this dolphin

Where did she go?

Her name is Cocoon...from the movie.

We're both enjoying the swim

We swam around for about 30 minutes.

Reaching for the dolphin

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...

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

Sun glistening on the blue water....

General view at port

Beautiful color water

The port at Freeport

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!

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.

Tender boat to take us to the island.

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!

Brookline Bridge...maybe?

Sideview of Elephant

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

Thursday's Animal - Elephant

Wednesday's Animal - Sitting Pig

Sideview of Sitting Pig

Tuesday's Animal - Seal

Seal head out of water

Monday's Towel animal - Penguin

Sideview of Penguin

Close-up of crossbones and skull

Pirate Museum of Nassau (outside)

Cheryl befriends a pirate

"You laughing at me?"

Blackbeard battling

Erica is held captive

Onboard surgery

The Pirates' Code of Conduct

You lived with your food.

Life at sea information

Living quarters on the ship

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

ship: Revenge at port

How they loaded cargo

Life in service of the Military

Defending the Bahamas

Groove in the wall from the drawbridge

Entering the Pirate Museum

Information about weapons

Letter from a military man

More information

Lord Dunmore's thoughts

The Military Storehouse of Our Island

This cannon could hit our ship too!

See how thick the castle walls were...

Cover to orginal well

The well is VERY deep...

Above Fort Charlotte

Fort Charlotte main entrance

Rest of Fort Charlotte Information

Steve (brother) at bottom of the staircase

Nassau's Lighthouse

Ships at port...

Fort Charlotte Information

Now the lizard poses

Queen's Staircase

65 steps down...

Walls of the Queen's Staircase

Norwegian Gem at port

Entrance into Nassau

Nassau Water Tower

This cannon can shoot our ship!

Fort Fincastle's guns

Lord Dunmore's cell

Closer cannon view

Military lizard

Fort Fincastle information

Another lizard basking

Cannon view from above

Country living in the reef.

Sand covered coral

Under the ocean

Hey look out....

Gray fish with a black dot

Blue fish closer to us.

Close-up with Yellow/black fish

Overhead view of coral

Sea urchin hiding...

Different fish swimming

Small yellow fish

Different coral

Gray fish swimming

Sunday's animal - bulldog

Side of the Bulldog

Deadly Dinner for 2

Anne (Erica's mom)

Brian and his mom (Cheryl)

Brad (Brian's dad)

Erica on the balcony...

Brian and Erica...

View off our balcony

Statue of Liberty's left side

Almost in front of her.

Isn't she beautiful?

Another view of her.

Brooklin Bridge

Coming closer to the lady

Statue of Liberty

Statue from a far

Leaving the terminal

Closer to the open sea

Manhatten Terminal

Great Stirup Cay

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