Scenes from the Turks and Caicos islands

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This year's vacation was to the Beaches Resort in the British West Indies. Wow - what a place! The luxury was staggering.

Again, I was fed up with posting images in the old forum but now I thought I'd share some photos from the resort and surrounds. These are in chronological order:

Here is the hotel room. King-sized bed for Mommy and Daddy. Kid gets the trundle bed in the corner:

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The first morning finds me out early roaming the property. This "overgrown" statue in a french garden catches my eye:

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Shortly after, it begins to rain and I take refuge under a sun umbrella. The rain stops after about ten minutes and leaves behind a rainbow:

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The ceiling of a pavillion:

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Across the courtyard:

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Here are a couple other pics from my wanderings that morning:





Once the sun is fully up, the camera equipment is put away.

So as the day ended on day one, I rushed down to the ocean to get my sunset pics. Unfortunately, the beach was rather narrow and fully developed as far as the eye could see in both directions.



Underneath the pier:



This is a candy shop:

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The next day again sees me up early and down to the beach. Only a couple pics this morning. Spent most of it just walking and listening to tunes. What a great way to start any day! I remember listening to "The Wake of Magellan" by Savatage with an ear-to-ear grin as I made my way down the beach.

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Day 3: Tuesday Feb 8th

Of course, the girls want to go shopping so we jump on a tour bus and head to a local market. The artwork of this island is hand-beaten metalwork. I think it was bronze but I couldn't get the fellow to understand what I was asking.





That evening, we took a sunset cruise on the resort's catamaran: "The Kitty Kat":

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Day 4: Wednesday Feb 9th

As usual, my morning walk finds me at the beach:



Everywhere you look you see these little anoles:


Plenty more pics of these guys in the days following.

After seeing this boat going back and forth all day, I decide we should try parasailing! What a rush!



That evening, I decided to wander the resort with my tripod and get some night shots:

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Day 5: Thursday Feb 10

Couple of resort shots on my morning walk:





That day we headed out on another cruise. The first stop was over a reef for some snorkling. I had never done this before and let me tell you, next year there is going to be a waterproof housing in my camera bag! Simply amazing! It was like one of those underwater documentaries. Once the snorkling was over, we then cruised over to a desert island. While the other guests partied and swam, I took out the 200-400mm and chased around wild iguanas!

































These are Rock Iguanas. This was really cool for me since I had one of these big lizards as a pet for many years. Seeing them in the wild was a treat. They were not terribly concerned about the photographer pointing a bazooka at them. If I got too close they would just waddle away another foot or so. This about ten diferent lizards, BTW.

On the way back from the island, a dolphin chased the boat:

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Day 6 - Friday, Feb 11











These little egrets were quite bold and would let you get easily within ten feet of them. They would quite often be seen staring intensely into the bushes and then would wiggle their butts before launching forward and grabbing one of the little anoles lizards:





Nom, nom, nom....



Speaking of anoles lizards:

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Day 7 - Saturday Feb 12

Well, all good things must come to an end and Saturday was our last day.

As usual in the morning, I am drawn to the ocean:









As I was walking along the boardwalk, this little fellow popped up:



Couple other pics around the resort that morning:





... and finally, after breakfast that morning, I decided it was time for an anoles lizard hunt. These little fellows are very common so the workers were always amused to see me sneaking up on them:















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[daviddewar]

As usual, great work Dale. I would also like to thank to thank you for building this fourm so we wont be frustrated with using the old one. It will also be easier to get new members posting right away. Great job!!

May 10, 2011 8:15:57 GMT -5 PS-RagE said:

This year's vacation was to the Beaches Resort in the British West Indies. Wow - what a place! The luxury was staggering.

Again, I was fed up with posting images in the old forum but now I thought I'd share some photos from the resort and surrounds. These are in chronological order:

Here is the hotel room. King-sized bed for Mommy and Daddy. Kid gets the trundle bed in the corner:

www.bugography.com/Gallery/Travel/Turks & Caicos 2011/room.jpg

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The first morning finds me out early roaming the property. This "overgrown" statue in a french garden catches my eye:

www.bugography.com/Gallery/Travel/Turks & Caicos 2011/garden1.jpg[/img]

Shortly after, it begins to rain and I take refuge under a sun umbrella. The rain stops after about ten minutes and leaves behind a rainbow:

www.bugography.com/Gallery/Travel/Turks & Caicos 2011/rainbow1.jpg[/img]

The ceiling of a pavillion:

www.bugography.com/Gallery/Travel/Turks & Caicos 2011/look_up1.jpg[/img]

Across the courtyard:

www.bugography.com/Gallery/Travel/Turks & Caicos 2011/arc1.jpg[/img]
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[aurele]

Again thanks for the new site Dale. Your shots are just breathtaking, thanks for sharing those with us.