Getting closer | Bigkitty Gallery

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"Did you get good pictures of all of those fish?"

"My work here is done!"

"Who you looking at?"

120,000 Years Ago

2 stalagmites...the large one has be cut to show it's layers

3 masked boobies flying near us, as the rainbow fades away

A cluster of stalactites and a cluster of stalagmites

A fish near the coral rock

A lizard in the middle of the picture that ran out in front of us.

A male on the right, I think a female in the middle, and unknown gender on the left

A masked booby along side the NCL Dawn

a school of sargent majors

A shack various fishermen use during their trips

A spring flowing through the caves

Almost a column

Alto Vista Chapel front

Alto Vista Chapel information

Another Hatchery Statue

Answers to the questions

Are those lava rocks?

Average age of these turtles is 30 yrs old

Barbados is not a volcanic island

Breeding Pond Info

Brian holding the stingray

Brian snorkeling

California Lighthouse

Cayman Crocodile Exhibit

Clear water...and a fish trying to blend in to the sandy bottom

Cliff Wall Vegetation Zone Info

Coming back to the ship

Coming through!

Conservation of the turtles

Continuing to the Natural Bridge

Crocodile questions

Cute sign on the bottom of the main sign

Different cacti growing around here

Different rock formations everywhere

Different types of coral

Different types of speleothems

Display of how an incubator is set up

Don't touch the barb...it will hurt you!

Down we go on the tram

Driving right along

Driving right along...

Driving the Arashi Dunes

Early Morning first Sea Day

Entrance to Cave and land formation information

Entrance to the Natural Bridge

Erosion in progress

Exploring the stairs

Eyes on the top

Fish swimming along the sandy bottom

Follow me...this way!

Following the coast to the natural bridge

Gentle creature

Gentle touches, but NO kisses

Gently gliding along

Getting ready to snorkel

Getting up close with a Stingray that's about 40 yrs old

Getting very close to the fish

Good morning Aruba!

Good view of the male above the other 2 turtles

Grand Cayman is a tender port...we are leaving the ship

Great Morning on a Sea Day

Great orange color!

Great stalactites

Green Turtle Facts

Hatchery Statue

Hawksbill Turtle Info

Hawksbill Turtle size

He's bringing over one to eat our squid

Headed out to Stingray City

Heading to Alto Vista Chapel

Heading to the California Lighthouse

Heading to the coast

Here comes another

Heritage of the turtles

Hold it like an icecream cone, and keep your thumb down

How did Harrison Cave form?

I got to touch one that's just a few years old!

I love the "smile" the ship has

In the last 120,000 years

Inside Alto Vista Chapel

Isn't she cute!

It needs a bit of paint touch ups when it goes to dry dock in December

It's all about water...

Large school of sargent majors

Left side of the beach

Less than 1 million years ago

Life of a Green Turtle

Life of a Hawksbill Turtle

Life of a Kemp's Ridley Turtle

Life of a Loggerhead Turtle

Lines in the sand from the waves

Loggerhead Turtle Info

Loggerhead Turtle size

Long ago, the small piles of rocks were used to mark fishing spots.

Long tails are male, short tails are female

Look one turtle is in the tunnel like Erica was in Tampa!

Looking at Arashi Bay

Looking inland...nice scenery

Looking out to sea on Andicuri Beach

Lots of stingrays and fish...hey free food daily, you'd hang out too!

Lots of turtles in the Breeding Pond!

Many new stalactites

Many stalactites still forming today

micro view of coral

Micro view of seaweed

More black spiky rocks!

My guide to a school of sergent majors

Nice coral and a rock with fish around the rock

Oh boy it's windy here! The dirt is flying into my eyes!

One of a few harbor porpoises playing along side the ship

Our squid to feed the stingrays

Overlooking Andicuri Beach

Passing Andicuri Beach

Passing by Brian

Photos to help explain previous picture

Physiology of the turtles

Pink glow on my guide

Plaque at Harrison Cave Visitor Center entrance

Rainy morning sea day with a masked booby

Random shacks for traveling fishermen

Reggie Medford - The man who created our sculptures

Right under me!

Rock view of Grand Cayman from the ship

Rules for touching the turtles

Sailing to Klein Bonaire for snorkeling

Sea Day sunrise rock

See how they flaps their sides to move

See I can smile!

See the drops on the stalactites?

Sharp looking stalactites

Siamese Sailing Junk with sails down

Side of Alto Vista Chapel

Size of an adult Green Turtle

Slightly younger turtles...under 20 yrs old.

Small vertical flowstone

Smiley the Crocodile

Soft smooth skin

Some of the drive was on paved roads

Spectacular crashing waves

Spout of water flowing out

Stalagmites almost looking like a group of people hanging out together

Starting our trip aboard the Siamese Sailing Junk

Starting our UTV Excursion

Steam running through the caves

Steep cliffs on the side of Andicuri Beach

Still wreaking havoc on the old broken bridge

Such blue waters!

Sun starting to peak out

Sunrise colors stretching to the clouds

Sunrise view out of the side window

Sunrise with the sun camera filter

Swimming under a platform for workers

The "beach" the females lay their eggs in. The workers move the eggs to the Hatchery.

The boat we used to get to Stingray City

The captain of the junk

The cliff shows the erosion

The end of the body of the female stingray

The first Sargent major fish that wasn't camera shy

The formation starts here

The layers of minerals on the stalagmite

The minerals forming a flowstone

The moon ending day 7 of our cruise

The ocean is eroding the land

The ocean is powerful!

The origin of the name of this town

The par that's in the middle of the tail is the barb

The power of the ocean!

The sign says it all!

The small beach under Baby Bridge

The type of tree the "Awesome Tree" is

They can swim under the platform we started our tour on.

This fish followed me EVERYWHERE!

This group of turtles are around 20 yrs old

This is Bes...our Tour Guide/driver for the day (just not at Stingray)

This is on the back of the chapel

This is the original bridge to Andicuri Beach that collapsed in 2005

Those black rocks would become white-ish if put in baking soda and water.

Today's driver is Erica

Touching the stingray

Turtle Hatchlings Experiment

Turtles in the Breeding Pond

Us on Andicuri Beach with the cliff behind us

Us on the beach

Vegetation wall

We're in the middle of the line of UTVs

Wearing the required head gear to go into the cave

Welcome sign to the info center

What is a karst?

Where the sandy area drops down deeper

Yellow building in the back is at the Natural Bridge

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