Our third port was San Juan. We had been there several years ago, but have little memory of the visit. Here is the city from our ship.
Our excursion took us around town, but most of the time was spent at an Cristobal, another UNESCO World Heritage site.
Our second Port was St. Kitts. The capital of the Island is Basseterre. This is the city from the ship.
We took a tour that took us first to Romney Plantation. This is a Pendulous Crab Claw plant growing there.
This is a small ruins on the plantation.
From there we went to Brimstone Hill Fortress. This is a UNESCO World Heritage site that was a fortress not he top of the highest hill on the island.
The first place we stopped on our cruise was St. Martin. We took a tour that took us through both the Dutch and the French sides of the Island and these are some of the pictures. Our port was on the Dutch side of the island, and this is from the ship looking in.
On the tour we drove along the coast and this is a view of the South Shore of the Island
Thuis is another view of the South Shore,
This is a view of the capital of the French side of the Island, Marigot.
Our first night at sea, we went to the show. Normally they do not allow any photography in the show but this time they said photography was allowed as long as no flash was used. So, got my camera and got these pictures of the performance.
We took another cruise from Ft. Lauderdale a week ago. This one went to St. Martin, St. Kitts, San Juan and Grand Turks. We stayed the night before in a Hyatt Regency in Ft. Lauderdale. We went to dinner on the Marina, and I got this shot coming back from dinner that night.
They had a tower that overlooked the resort and Ft. Lauderdale. In the morning, I took some pictures including this one of the two ships docked in the cruise port.
While driving around for Featherfest we saw the Railroad Museum and decided to visit it. Debbie and I had visited it a couple years ago, but her friend’s husband was really interested in it.
These area couple of milk cans on an old cart. The contrast of the textures makes for an interesting image. The cornerstone of the museum is a restored diesel locomotive.
There is a “festival” in Galveston to celebrate the spring bird migration. A friend of Debbie’s from Wisconsin is into birds, and she and her husband came to Galveston for the weekend to attend the festival. On Saturday, we drove all over the island looking for birds. We went to one spot, and didn’t really find much, but I saw this rather cool cats that was in the process of setting buds of a blossom.
We did find birds in the place where I go to look for Sandhill Cranes. One of the things I have always wanted was a good picture of a bird flying. I finally got one. This is a white Ibis that had just taken off.
One of the places in Galveston that I have wanted to get good pictures of is Star Drug Store. This is one of the oldest drug stores int he state of Texas, but, there are always cars parked in front of it making it a hard place to get good pictures of. I went downtown on a Monday morning, hoping there would not be cars parked in front of it, but I was wrong. So, I just worked around the cars.
Since I could not get a picture straight on, I decided to get one from each side.
And this was from the other side. While doing Art Walk the Saturday before, I noticed how cool the old windows on O’Malley’s Pub looked and I walked up Post office street to get a good picture of them. The glass looks like it was really old and it is impossible to count the number of coats of paint that must have been applied to those windows.
The AMCA Annual Meeting was in Savannah, GA. We got there late in the afternoon, and I had a feeling that the low sun might make a really nice pic on Bay St.
One afternoon, as the sun was setting, I was in a reception and looked out over the river and saw the colors were really strong.
While walking around the city, I was struck by the texture of the old buildings. This was on Congress St.
When coming back tot he ferry, I noticed the contrast between the color of this red ladder and the grey of the buildings.
As always, we went to Galveston for Mardi Gras weekend. I spent Saturday morning on the West Side looking for birds. Here is a group of Sandhill Canes I found.
Out there, I noticed a small creek and saw there was a skeleton in it. It looked to be too small to be a cow, so I think it might have been a coyote. You can see it on the bottom right of this picture.
We did go to Mardi Gras, and I kind of liked the way this picture of one of the participants on a float turned out.
