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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Bermuda's Crystal Cave

I am linking my Bermuda's Crystal Cave with Scenic Sunday. I have not shown all my Bermuda photos and I thought our visit to the Crystal Caves would be a great post. After our three hour tour of the island we asked to be dropped off at the Crystal Caves. Hubby loves spleunking so I thought a tour of these caves would be perfect for him. We had time to get a quick bite to eat while we waited for the next tour. I was happy sitting at the tables outside watching the birds we waited.

We had a nice tour guide during our visit to the caves, he told us the story about how the caves were originally found. The story goes two 12 year old boys looking for their lost cricket ball that fell down into a hole. The boys follow the ball down into the hole and discovered the cave. Crystal Cave got its name from the deep crystal pools in the cave.

The water is so clear you can see the bottom of the cave floor.

I am pretty sure these formations are called straws.

There were floating bridges so we could walk back further into the cave. It was pretty cool checking out all the formations.

More formations in the water and reflections.

I hope you enjoyed my Bermuda Crystal Caves post and to see more click Scenic Sunday . Thanks to the host of Scenic Sunday the Holleys. Thank You for visiting my post and blog, as always I appreciate the visits and the comments. Have a great weekend!!!

Friday, August 5, 2011

Bermuda's Green Sea Turtles and other critters

For my Camera Critter post I am showing the Green Sea Turtles we saw while touring Bermuda. Our guide stopped to show us these Green Turtles outside the aquarium. A group of children were there feeding the turtles lettuce (at least it looked like lettuce) when we got there at end of their feeding time and we were offered the leftovers to feed.

Bermuda.conserveturtles.org

Bermuda has a great conservation program going on for the Green Sea Turtles. The link above explains the history of the Green Sea Turtle, fished almost to the point of extinction. I am happy that Bermuda cares so much about these endangered animals. In the USA it seems to be a constant battle to keep animals and birds on the endangered list and to protect them. Being an animal lover, I am all for protecting all the species that may be even close to being endangered or near extinction.

These Green Sea turtles looked like gentle creatures, we just had to watch our fingers when feeding them. My son and his friend were doing the feeding while I was taking photos.

The water in Bermuda is so clear you can look down and see the fish.

I always enjoy seeing the critters and that includes this cute Lizzy the lizard.

I hope you enjoyed my Green Sea Turtles and critters from Bermuda. To see more cute and wonderful critters check out Misty Dawn's Camera Critters. Thanks to Misty for hosting and thanks for stopping by to see my post.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

SWF>>>>Bermuda sunrise

For my Skywatch Friday I have a few sunrise photos from our ship the Enchantment of the Seas docked in Bermuda. I also included some shots of Bermuda and the beautiful sky.

This moody looking sky greeted us as we made our way to the top deck to watch the sunrise.

This was the second day in Bermuda so we up early and were excited about seeing more of Bermuda. We only had till 1:30 in afternoon to see and do as much as we could fit in the small amount of time we had left in Bermuda.

We were happy to see the sun rising up over the other end of the island.

After watching the sunrise, we rushed off for breakfast. You can not go hungry while on a cruise ship. They have plenty of food.

If we can we usually try to arrange our own tour and excursions. We usually meet great local people and pay a lot less for the tour. By the way I have two unused two day bus tickets for Bermuda, anyone interested? My son and friend did not use their bus passes. Our plans were to take the bus to the beach to hang out for awhile and then go back to the dockyard for some shopping.

By the time we made our way off the ship, took the bus to Horseshoe Beach this is what the sky looked like.

Back on the ship, we looked back at the view of the Dockyard and the shopping mall.

Here is our view from the back our of ship as we were leaving the dock.

I hope you enjoyed my Bermuda skies, I sure did. To see more wonderful skies from around the world click : Skywatch Friday . Thanks to the host: Sylvia, Wren, Sandy and Klaus! Also, thanks for stopping by to see my skies and I hope everyone has beautiful skies to enjoy and a great weekend.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Today's Flowers

This is my post for Today's Flowers

During our stop in Bermuda we took a private guided tour of the island. We visited many of the highlights of Bermuda. Our guide showed us a little extra, one extra stop was a privately owned garden. The pond and waterlilies were beautiful.

I have always loved waterlilies and the yellow ones are just gorgeous.

I was trying to capture the dragonfly on the pink waterlily one below.

The pond was design like a map of Bermuda... A very cool idea and a neat pond. Bermuda has a lot of islands connected by bridges.

I hope you enjoyed my post for Today's Flowers please click on the link to see many more beautiful flowers.
Thanks to the hosting group of Santili, Denise, Pupo and Sandy. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you take the time to enjoy the flowers and that your Sunday is wonderful.