Well, I'm still trying to figure out the new set up for the Blog. Again it didn't download the pics in the same order as I put them in and it's very difficult to move the pictures around once they are uploaded soooo this is not chronological. I'm also trying to catch up with last years pics and blog so since I am up to date with the present here is a blog from last January 2011. Sally took me to Atlantis in Nassau. It was fabulous and I thank you Sal for an wonderful experience. This is a pic of two gals who worked at the aquarium at Atlantis.
This is a huge blown glass art piece in the Casino there. It was unbelievable.
And of course I found the library and used it. I'm enjoying Dean Koontz in the last couple years and my favourite is "From the Corner of His Eye". It's about the Quantum Theory and he puts it into novel form and it is totally awesome.
I spent a lot of time at the aquarium which was huge, acres of water and fish and creatures and coral and...everything. I went to my reference books on fish, creatures, etc. of the Atlantic Ocean and tried to identify as many species as I could. This is what I came up with. I bet you're glad I didn't get a picture of everyone of these fish...only a picture in my mind's eye.
Fish that I saw at Atlantis and Scuba Diving Yesterday
56 different species of fish.
Disks and
Ovals/Colourful (6)
- Blue Angelfish
- Queen Angelfish
- French Angelfish
- Foureye Butterflyfish Juvenile
- Blue Tang
- Ocean Surgeonfish
- Silvery (10)
- · Dolphinfish
- · Rainbow Runner
- · Bar Jack
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Crevalle Jack
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Horse-Eye Jack
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Great Barracuda
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Sea Bream
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Pinfish
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Chub
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Pilot Fish
Sloping
Heads/Tapered Bodies (9)
- French Grunt
- Porkfish
- Red Snapper
- Mutton Snapper
- Gray Snapper
- Mahogany Snapper
- Dog Snapper
- Yellowtail Snapper
- Schoolmaster
- Small Ovals (1)
- Sunshinefish Juvenile
- Heavy Bodies/Large Lips (8)
- Goliath Grouper
- Red Grouper
- Red Grouper Juvenile
- Black Grouper
- Bank Sea Bass
- Sand Perch
- Fairy Basslet
- Swim with Pectoral Fins/Obvious Scales (4)
- · Blue Parrotfish
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Rainbow Parrotfish
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Stoplight Parrotfish
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Hogfish
Reddish/Big Eyes (1)
- Squirrelfish
- Small, Elongated Bottom-Dwellers (1)
- Dash Goby
- Odd-Shaped Bottom-Dwellers (1)
- Dwarf Seahorse
- Odd-Shaped Swimmers (4)
- Checkered Puffer
- Queen Triggerfish
- Gray Triggerfish
- Spotted Drum
- Eels (2)
- Green Moray
- Spotted Moray
- Sharks and Rays (6)
- Nurse Shark
- Reef Shark
- Sawfish
- Spotted Eagle Ray
- Giant Manta
- Atlantic Stingray
- Brazilian Fishes (3)
- Yellowstriped Grunt
- Brazilian Basslet
- Saddled Parrotfish
- Reef Creatures
- Moon Jelly Fish
This is a picture of the "Golliath Grouper". He is huge beside this woman. Hard to believe he was real.
There were lovely paths around Atlantis. All of the rock and waterfalls are man made but they were still beautiful.
This is the beach facing North from our room.
I love the white sand beaches of the Bahamas and the beautiful turquoise waters.
One aquarium had these Baby Cownose Rays. They swam in the same shape or form as the shape of their bodies. It was amazing to see.
Here is a herd? lamentation? murder? flock? of baby cownose rays swimming under the bridge I was standing on.
Oh yes...me and my shadow.
The fountains with the pegagsus horses, what are horses with wings called???? statues. So beautiful.
The building where our room is.
More park area around Atlantis.
Fountains and bridges and the entrance way to the building we stayed in.
Sally and me on the Island plane that flew from Freeport to Nassau. Thanks again Sal for a life remembering memory.
The Island plane.
Driving down the streets of Nassau.
Officials in Nassau.
Ummmm.... brain fart....what is this??? It's a ......I'll have to go on and come back to this...Jelly Fish? It's a Moon Jelly Fish, I looked it up in my Reef Creature Identification book.
Aren't they just amaaaazing!
Part of the big building that have the rooms in for people to rent.
Condo buildings across from the very large Atlantic building.
Beautiful art inside the building.
On the ceiling inside the entrance way of the huge building.
The blue down below is one of the huge aquariums.
From the deck on our room you could see this silhouette of a giant manta ray in the aquarium below.
Another silhouette picture of the giant manta rays.
From our deck in our room this is facing North.
Me reading.
Mayan sculptures under the water in the aquarium.
This is a Pork Fish.
I think these are Dog Snappers.
These are Yellow-tail Snappers.
This is a Sting Ray...a spotted Eagle Ray without spots...does anyone know for sure?
Spotted Eagle Ray. These are common in the canal where we have our boat on Grand Bahama Island.
Pork Fish.
Pork Fish.
Lion Fish.
There are quite a few of these in the canal near us. Last year son Michael, grandson Paul and friend Shane went Lion Fish spearing and caught 2. The ribbons on them will paralyze you so you have to be very careful handling them. Tom makes Lion Fish Sushi.
These are Cushion Sea Stars.
Pork Fish. This is a video and hopefully I can figure out how to set it up so that you can see the video instead of a still picture.
More Jelly Fish.
Longsnout Sea Horse.
Giant Manta Ray.
The building where our room is.
The rooms across the top of the arch was built by Michael Jackson. Rich people can book it for 30,000 a night or something crazy like that.
This slide goes down into the pool with sharks are on either side of the tube. Sally and I went down this slide into to the tube. I screamed my head off.
The tube you slide into with the sharks around you in the pool.
One of the sharks. We're in a tube so we're very safe.
Hibiscus.
A very cute little shopping area near where we were staying. We had supper at a really nice restaurant and there was live music and lots of great little shops.
Nassau Groupers.
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