Great stalactites | Bigkitty Gallery

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Vegetation wall

The type of tree the "Awesome Tree" is

micro view of coral

"Who you looking at?"

Pink glow on my guide

Wearing the required head gear to go into the cave

Driving right along

This is on the back of the chapel

Rainy morning sea day with a masked booby

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

The moon ending day 7 of our cruise

Welcome sign to the info center

Such blue waters!

Less than 1 million years ago

Sunrise view out of the side window

Almost a column

Different types of speleothems

Alto Vista Chapel information

Micro view of seaweed

Us on the beach

Steam running through the caves

Great orange color!

Heading to the coast

Left side of the beach

Side of Alto Vista Chapel

Where the sandy area drops down deeper

A fish near the coral rock

Many stalactites still forming today

Overlooking Andicuri Beach

Different types of coral

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

Spout of water flowing out

Follow me...this way!

See the drops on the stalactites?

A spring flowing through the caves

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

Different cacti growing around here

Spectacular crashing waves

Passing Andicuri Beach

Looking at Arashi Bay

Alto Vista Chapel front

Heading to the California Lighthouse

California Lighthouse

Sea Day sunrise rock

Today's driver is Erica

The power of the ocean!

Looking inland...nice scenery

A cluster of stalactites and a cluster of stalagmites

Driving right along...

Some of the drive was on paved roads

The minerals forming a flowstone

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

Heading to Alto Vista Chapel

Cliff Wall Vegetation Zone Info

It's all about water...

A masked booby along side the NCL Dawn

Barbados is not a volcanic island

Erosion in progress

Nice coral and a rock with fish around the rock

Lines in the sand from the waves

Small vertical flowstone

Still wreaking havoc on the old broken bridge

This fish followed me EVERYWHERE!

How did Harrison Cave form?

Inside Alto Vista Chapel

The ocean is eroding the land

One of a few harbor porpoises playing along side the ship

Sunrise with the sun camera filter

Us on Andicuri Beach with the cliff behind us

What is a karst?

Stalagmites almost looking like a group of people hanging out together

Sunrise colors stretching to the clouds

The small beach under Baby Bridge

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

Yellow building in the back is at the Natural Bridge

Getting very close to the fish

We're in the middle of the line of UTVs

Driving the Arashi Dunes

The captain of the junk

Following the coast to the natural bridge

Large school of sargent majors

Sun starting to peak out

Rock view of Grand Cayman from the ship

The layers of minerals on the stalagmite

"My work here is done!"

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

Many new stalactites

Entrance to the Natural Bridge

Plaque at Harrison Cave Visitor Center entrance

Random shacks for traveling fishermen

Brian snorkeling

Great stalactites

Continuing to the Natural Bridge

The cliff shows the erosion

Fish swimming along the sandy bottom

Down we go on the tram

The formation starts here

The ocean is powerful!

Entrance to Cave and land formation information

A shack various fishermen use during their trips

Looking out to sea on Andicuri Beach

My guide to a school of sergent majors

Different rock formations everywhere

Steep cliffs on the side of Andicuri Beach

In the last 120,000 years

Good morning Aruba!

Starting our UTV Excursion

Great Morning on a Sea Day

Sailing to Klein Bonaire for snorkeling

a school of sargent majors

Sharp looking stalactites

120,000 Years Ago

Siamese Sailing Junk with sails down

Starting our trip aboard the Siamese Sailing Junk

Reggie Medford - The man who created our sculptures

Early Morning first Sea Day

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

The first Sargent major fish that wasn't camera shy

Getting ready to snorkel

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

Gentle touches, but NO kisses

Cute sign on the bottom of the main sign

See I can smile!

The sign says it all!

Turtle Hatchlings Experiment

Size of an adult Green Turtle

Slightly younger turtles...under 20 yrs old.

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

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

Good view of the male above the other 2 turtles

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

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

Soft smooth skin

Photos to help explain previous picture

Coming through!

Right under me!

The origin of the name of this town

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

Here comes another

More black spiky rocks!

Loggerhead Turtle Info

Hatchery Statue

Green Turtle Facts

The boat we used to get to Stingray City

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

Eyes on the top

Isn't she cute!

Hawksbill Turtle size

Exploring the stairs

Life of a Loggerhead Turtle

Long tails are male, short tails are female

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

Display of how an incubator is set up

Gentle creature

Average age of these turtles is 30 yrs old

Life of a Green Turtle

Our squid to feed the stingrays

Crocodile questions

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

He's bringing over one to eat our squid

Heritage of the turtles

Loggerhead Turtle size

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

Lots of turtles in the Breeding Pond!

Conservation of the turtles

Are those lava rocks?

This group of turtles are around 20 yrs old

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

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

Rules for touching the turtles

Life of a Hawksbill Turtle

Smiley the Crocodile

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

Cayman Crocodile Exhibit

Life of a Kemp's Ridley Turtle

See how they flaps their sides to move

Breeding Pond Info

Gently gliding along

Physiology of the turtles

Another Hatchery Statue

Passing by Brian

Headed out to Stingray City

Touching the stingray

Coming back to the ship

Answers to the questions

The end of the body of the female stingray

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

Swimming under a platform for workers

Hawksbill Turtle Info

I love the "smile" the ship has

Brian holding the stingray

Turtles in the Breeding Pond

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

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