Photos from Travalon's Good Camera: Half Moon Cay

 

Today I worked on campus again, and at lunchtime I walked with Hardingfele in her building. There were some faculty and grad students around, so life is coming back to the place. I went up to another floor and saw this cool Christmas card someone had hand-drawn, but there was nothing written inside:

I forgot to post this, which I actually got a couple of days ago, but it's never too late for some DuoLingo bragging:

Yesterday Travalon had to work at the front desk, but he had company:

Today some athletes from the university visited his work to play with the kids, and he got Blackwell's autograph for me. Then he went to see a Beach Boys tribute band while I came home and crashed. Still not feeling the best after the dose of diet medication...

As promised, here are photos from Travalon's good camera from our day on Half Moon Cay. First, though, are a couple more photos of a masked booby and some sunset photos from our day at sea.

Here are photos from Half Moon Cay. First, there was another cruise ship already there.

And lots of smaller boats going back and forth to bring people from the two ships.

There was a "town square" area with souvenir shops and this guy playing music:

Here are some photos from our eco-lagoon tour. This is fan coral.

What kind of fruit is on this shrub?

Mangroves have such cool roots.

We saw lots of these fish.

And lots of cacti! In the Bahamas?

We saw birds we know from back home: a great blue heron and a snowy egret.

This is the little chapel on the island.

You can see the coral reefs just under the shallow water.

Here is what the coral looked like through the glass-bottomed boat:

A heron and an egret together.

Ever wonder what Travalon would look like holding a sea cucumber? Wonder no more!

He looks like he's about to take a bite out of it. And here are the coral all collected together.

I don't know why they have this fake shark in the water of the lagoon.

More mangroves with their cool roots.

A conch shell lying on the bottom of the lagoon.

Here are photos from the beach on Half Moon Cay.

Back on the ship, we went to the Ocean View Bar and watched the coastline of Eleuthera. 

No sunset photos from the Third Day of Christmas, because we were at Mass, and someone closed the drapes in the room on the windows facing the ocean. They left the drapes on the interior windows open, so people could gawk at us as they walked by. I would have preferred that the people in charge do the opposite and let us gaze at the sunset but not have others gazing at us. I don't consider Mass a spectator sport.

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