St. Maarten - Good Morning! | Bigkitty Gallery

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Normally a rainy day for us, so we shop.

Bastión de las Palmas de San José

"But He was pierced for..."

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

"For I know the plans..."

"My work here is done!"

"Walk in the ways..."

"Who you looking at?"

120,000 Years Ago

2 different pork dishes

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 "frog" in the distance

A cluster of stalactites and a cluster of stalagmites

A cup of garbanzada, a traditional Puerto Rican chickpea stew

A fish near the coral rock

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

A lot of food being prepared

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

A view of the cruise port

Adding final touches to the food before serving it to everyone

All 3 modes of transportation in 1 picture

Almost a column

Almost fully through

Alto Vista Chapel front

Alto Vista Chapel information

Always steaming

An espresso shot

Another "oil painting" filter picture

Another 1600s building

Another Hatchery Statue

Another version of the view from the balcony

Another view of Fort Barrington

Answers to the questions

Are those lava rocks?

Average age of these turtles is 30 yrs old

Balcony with no gap at toe area

Bananas curve up when growing!

Barbados is not a volcanic island

Belly view of Green-throated Carib

Bird of Paradise

Bread and Cheese (Begonia obliqua)

Breeding Pond Info

Brian enjoying the view

Brian holding the stingray

Brian hugging Erica

Brian in our Living Room

Brian snorkeling

Brilliant orange sky!

Bronze statue of Catalino 'Tite' Curet Alonso

Bubbling spring

California Lighthouse

Carnival Legend going under the bridge

Carnival Paradise leaving the Tampa Port

Casa Alcaldía de San Juan

Catedral Basilica Menor de San Juan Bautista

Cayman Crocodile Exhibit

Chef JJ Johnson

Chef talking to us about what happens here daily

Chenille plants along the path

Chocolate Martini at the Chocobar

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

Cliff Wall Vegetation Zone Info

Close up of a chenille plant

Close up of West Indian Jasmin

Close up view of a shell

Closer view of Fort Barrington

Closer view of the steaming stuff

Closer view of the table

Coming back to the ship

Coming through!

Conservation of the turtles

Continuing to the Natural Bridge

Cool lights on the bridge

Cool looking plant

Crocodile questions

Cute sign on the bottom of the main sign

Day 13th - The sun is rising from behind us

Different cacti growing around here

Different color whipped cream

Different rock formations everywhere

Different types of coral

Different types of speleothems

Different view of Plaza de la Barandilla

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

El Convento - started as a Carmelite convent in 1651

Electrical room

Embarkation Day

Entering the Tampa Port

Entrance to Cave and land formation information

Entrance to Maranatha Gardens

Entrance to the Natural Bridge

Erica got to help Chef JJ with one of his recipes

Erica hugging Brian

Erica is taking aim...

Erica talking about what we grill at home

Erica the Turtle!

Erosion in progress

Exploring the stairs

Eyes on the top

Fish Market Mosaic sidewalk art

Fish swimming along the sandy bottom

Follow me...this way!

Following the coast to the natural bridge

Fort Barrington in the distance

Front view of the NCL Dawn

Fuente de la Herencia de las Américas

Full side view of the ship

Full view of La Perla

Galley continues

Gentle creature

Gentle touches, but NO kisses

Gently gliding along

Getting closer the the "frog"

Getting closer!

Getting ready to snorkel

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

Getting very close to the fish

Going through Hillsborough Bay

Good morning Antigua

Good morning Aruba!

Good morning San Juan

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

Green-throated Carib

Hatchery Statue

Hawksbill Rock...our "frog"

Hawksbill Turtle Info

Hawksbill Turtle size

He worked in the atrium

He's bringing over one to eat our squid

Headed out to Stingray City

Heading back to port

Heading out on our excursion

Heading to Alto Vista Chapel

Heading to the California Lighthouse

Heading to the coast

Here comes another

Here's the full picture

Heritage of the turtles

Hey there little hermit crab!

Highest deck mid-ship view towards front

Historical architecture with the modern version

Historical stage at the restaurant

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

Hot steam venting through the volcanic plug

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

Info about the ship

Info on Catalino 'Tite' Curet Alonso

Inside Alto Vista Chapel

Inside view from the street of Catedral de San Juan Bautista

Isn't she cute!

It looks like a turtle opening it's jaws

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

It was cool being able to sit there!

It's all about water...

Just 1 great view after another

Just a relaxing view to start a relaxing vacation

La Fortaleza in the back and the hanging PR flag

Ladies dressing room for Main Theater

Large school of sargent majors

Last stop - Princesa Cocina Cultura

Leaving Tampa Bay

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

Lining up between the markers

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 how close the poles on the ship get to the bridge

Look how large the area is

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

Look! Terminal 2 in Tampa from our balcony

Looking at Arashi Bay

Looking back through our wing wall

Looking back to port

Looking inland...nice scenery

Looking off the side of the pier

Looking out from St. John

Looking out on the beach at Anse La Raye

Looking out to sea on Andicuri Beach

Looking out to the Atlantic Ocean at La Perla

Looking up to where the walk down started from

Looks like a face

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

Lots of turtles in the Breeding Pond!

Lunch during our Champaign Lobster Catamaran cruise

Making a dressing for the Tuna Tartar appetizer

Making desserts

Many new stalactites

Many stalactites still forming today

Marigot Bay, St. Lucia

Men dressing room for Main Theater

micro view of coral

Micro view of seaweed

Mid-ship facing forward

More black spiky rocks!

Most of the costumes

Mountains in the distance

Multi-million dollar house facing at oil rig

My guide to a school of sergent majors

My rock with his new turtle friend at St. Lucia

Name of our boat - Filante

NCL Dawn in St. Lucia

Neat small plant

Newer balconies have the gap at the bottom

Next stop - Hotel Plaza de Armas coffee bar

Nice coast line

Nice coral and a rock with fish around the rock

Nice white cockatoos hanging around

Now our adventure begins!

Off in the distance: Carnival Legend Cruise ship and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge

Official residence of the Governor-General

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

Oil rig off the coast

One building left from 1600s battles

One day's worth of bread

One of a few harbor porpoises playing along side the ship

One of the 20mm caliber Oerlikon guns

One side of the engine room

Original brick pavers line the streets in Old San Juan

Other side of Fort Barrington

Other view of the engine room from the catwalks.

Our 2nd snorkel spot

Our beverage had mint and lime in it

Our excursion catamaran

Our first stop on our Food Tour - La Carreta

Our ship's purple lights look good with the bridge lights

Our squid to feed the stingrays

Our tour guide sharing history of the plaza

Our towel animal menagerie

Overlooking Andicuri Beach

Overlooking Soufriere and the Pitons

Panoramic view of Castries, St. Lucia

Panoramic View of Hillsborough Bay

Part of Plaza de la Barandilla

Part of the original fort

Passing Andicuri Beach

Passing by Brian

Passing more rocks

Photos to help explain previous picture

Physiology of the turtles

Pier at L'Anse la Raye

Pink glow on my guide

Plaque at Harrison Cave Visitor Center entrance

Pool where you can swim in the Sulphur Springs mud

Port side towards aft

Rainy morning sea day with a masked booby

Random shacks for traveling fishermen

Red tinged water from the minerals around

Refridgerated storage

Reggie Medford - The man who created our sculptures

Right under me!

Rock and Turtle enjoying the view

Rock off of Shipstern Point

Rock view of Grand Cayman from the ship

Rules for touching the turtles

Sailing to Klein Bonaire for snorkeling

Sea Day sunrise rock

Second stop - Deaverdura

See how they flaps their sides to move

See I can smile!

See the Caribbean Sea

See the drops on the stalactites?

Selfie on the River Walk

Sharp looking stalactites

Siamese Sailing Junk with sails down

Side of Alto Vista Chapel

Simple platter of pulled pork, rice, and beans

Size of an adult Green Turtle

Slight side view from mid-ship

Slightly younger turtles...under 20 yrs old.

Small vertical flowstone

Smiley the Crocodile

Soft smooth skin

Some of the drive was on paved roads

Sorted my cast member

Spectacular crashing waves

Spout of water flowing out

SS American Victory

St. Maarten - Good Morning!

Stalagmites almost looking like a group of people hanging out together

Standing mid-ship

Starboard side of the ship toward aft

Starting a Tuna tartar appetizer

Starting our trip aboard the Siamese Sailing Junk

Starting our UTV Excursion

Steam running through the caves

Steaming volcanic plug

Steep cliffs on the side of Andicuri Beach

Still wreaking havoc on the old broken bridge

Stuffed Sweet Plantains With Corned Beef Croquettes

Such blue waters!

Sun setting as we get closer to the bridge

Sun starting to peak out

Sunrise at Castries St. Lucia

Sunrise colors stretching to the clouds

Sunrise looking forward Day 14

Sunrise on Day 14

Sunrise view out of the side window

Sunrise with the sun camera filter

Sunset on our last day of this cruise

Sunsetting on San Juan

Sunshine Skyway Bridge at dusk

Swimming under a platform for workers

Talking about baking pastries

Tech staff for Main Theater

That's a tight fit!

That's one of the restaurants we went to: Jackson's Bistro Bar & Sushi

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

The 5-inch 38 caliber gun

The bay at Castries looking at the NCL Dawn

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 nights were so clear. Here's our last night!

The ocean is eroding the land

The ocean is powerful!

The orange rays are disappearing

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 purple lights on the bridge look perfect with the sunset

The sand is all broken shells

The sign says it all!

The small beach under Baby Bridge

The sun is almost set

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge looks great in this light!

The type of tree the "Awesome Tree" is

The way to Paseo de la Princesa

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

This barge came very close to us as we passed each other in the channel

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.

Thunbergia vines

Today's driver is Erica

Too hot to grow anything there

Touching the stingray

Towel folding machine

Towel going through it

Turtle Hatchlings Experiment

Turtles in the Breeding Pond

Under the bridge

Up close with a Thunbergia vines

Us on Andicuri Beach with the cliff behind us

Us on the beach

Us over looking Marigot Bay

Using the "Oil Painting" feature of the camera at sunset

Vegetation wall

Very nasty smelling...Sulphur

View as we start leaving looking forward

View from behind the wheel

View from one of the 20mm caliber Oerlikon guns

View from our balcony

View from the beach

View to the left

View to the right

Walking along a street in Old San Juan

Walking along the wall down

Walking through the galley

Washing Machine

washy washy your laundry

We are docking, and you can see our hotel from before the cruise.

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?

What is cooking?

Where the sandy area drops down deeper

Where the sheets are coming out

Where we are first snorkeling

Wide view of the volcanic plug

Wonderful blending of color from day to night

Wonderful sunset colors!

Yellow building in the back is at the Natural Bridge

You can see the thickness of the fort wall

Zoomed in to capture the orange hues

Zoomed in view as the Carnival Legend approaches the bridge

Zoomed in...there it is Marriott Water Street

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