Pink glow on my guide | Bigkitty Gallery

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Sharp looking stalactites

Stalagmites almost looking like a group of people hanging out together

A cluster of stalactites and a cluster of stalagmites

Spout of water flowing out

Steam running through the caves

Almost a column

Small vertical flowstone

Many new stalactites

See the drops on the stalactites?

A spring flowing through the caves

Different types of speleothems

The minerals forming a flowstone

Many stalactites still forming today

Great stalactites

Down we go on the tram

Wearing the required head gear to go into the cave

The layers of minerals on the stalagmite

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

It's all about water...

In the last 120,000 years

120,000 Years Ago

Less than 1 million years ago

The formation starts here

Barbados is not a volcanic island

How did Harrison Cave form?

What is a karst?

Welcome sign to the info center

The type of tree the "Awesome Tree" is

Entrance to Cave and land formation information

Cliff Wall Vegetation Zone Info

Vegetation wall

Plaque at Harrison Cave Visitor Center entrance

Reggie Medford - The man who created our sculptures

The moon ending day 7 of our cruise

One of a few harbor porpoises playing along side the ship

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

A masked booby along side the NCL Dawn

Rainy morning sea day with a masked booby

Siamese Sailing Junk with sails down

"My work here is done!"

Different types of coral

Nice coral and a rock with fish around the rock

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

Large school of sargent majors

Getting very close to the fish

"Who you looking at?"

My guide to a school of sergent majors

A fish near the coral rock

Fish swimming along the sandy bottom

Brian snorkeling

Pink glow on my guide

a school of sargent majors

Follow me...this way!

This fish followed me EVERYWHERE!

The first Sargent major fish that wasn't camera shy

Where the sandy area drops down deeper

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

Getting ready to snorkel

Sailing to Klein Bonaire for snorkeling

The captain of the junk

Starting our trip aboard the Siamese Sailing Junk

Looking at Arashi Bay

California Lighthouse

Heading to the California Lighthouse

Driving the Arashi Dunes

This is on the back of the chapel

Side of Alto Vista Chapel

Inside Alto Vista Chapel

Alto Vista Chapel front

Alto Vista Chapel information

Driving right along...

Heading to Alto Vista Chapel

A shack various fishermen use during their trips

Spectacular crashing waves

The small beach under Baby Bridge

Still wreaking havoc on the old broken bridge

Erosion in progress

The power of the ocean!

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

Entrance to the Natural Bridge

Looking inland...nice scenery

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

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

Some of the drive was on paved roads

Different cacti growing around here

Continuing to the Natural Bridge

Us on Andicuri Beach with the cliff behind us

Us on the beach

Micro view of seaweed

Left side of the beach

Lines in the sand from the waves

micro view of coral

Looking out to sea on Andicuri Beach

Steep cliffs on the side of Andicuri Beach

Driving right along

The cliff shows the erosion

Overlooking Andicuri Beach

Passing Andicuri Beach

Yellow building in the back is at the Natural Bridge

Different rock formations everywhere

Following the coast to the natural bridge

The ocean is powerful!

The ocean is eroding the land

Random shacks for traveling fishermen

Such blue waters!

Today's driver is Erica

Heading to the coast

We're in the middle of the line of UTVs

Starting our UTV Excursion

Good morning Aruba!

Rock view of Grand Cayman from the ship

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

I love the "smile" the ship has

Coming back to the ship

The boat we used to get to Stingray City

The end of the body of the female stingray

Eyes on the top

Here comes another

Passing by Brian

Coming through!

Touching the stingray

See I can smile!

Gentle creature

Right under me!

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

See how they flaps their sides to move

Gently gliding along

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

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

Soft smooth skin

He's bringing over one to eat our squid

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

Our squid to feed the stingrays

Headed out to Stingray City

Cute sign on the bottom of the main sign

The origin of the name of this town

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

More black spiky rocks!

Are those lava rocks?

The sign says it all!

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

Good view of the male above the other 2 turtles

Photos to help explain previous picture

Turtle Hatchlings Experiment

Display of how an incubator is set up

Life of a Green Turtle

Life of a Kemp's Ridley Turtle

Life of a Hawksbill Turtle

Life of a Loggerhead Turtle

Loggerhead Turtle Info

Loggerhead Turtle size

Hawksbill Turtle Info

Hawksbill Turtle size

Green Turtle Facts

Size of an adult Green Turtle

Another Hatchery Statue

Hatchery Statue

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

Lots of turtles in the Breeding Pond!

Breeding Pond Info

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

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

Gentle touches, but NO kisses

Isn't she cute!

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

Rules for touching the turtles

Slightly younger turtles...under 20 yrs old.

Smiley the Crocodile

Answers to the questions

Crocodile questions

Cayman Crocodile Exhibit

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

This group of turtles are around 20 yrs old

Physiology of the turtles

Conservation of the turtles

Heritage of the turtles

Exploring the stairs

Average age of these turtles is 30 yrs old

Long tails are male, short tails are female

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

Swimming under a platform for workers

Turtles in the Breeding Pond

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

Brian holding the stingray

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

Sunrise colors stretching to the clouds

Sunrise with the sun camera filter

Sunrise view out of the side window

Great orange color!

Sun starting to peak out

Sea Day sunrise rock

Great Morning on a Sea Day

Early Morning first Sea Day

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