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Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Articles | South Pacific Paradise - Rarotonga - The Soul of Polynesia Rarotonga, Cook Islands

• An Avarua street prior to a tropical rain
• Trigger and butterfly fish in the Arorangi lagoon
• Sunset at Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
• Along the around-the-island road near Muri beach
• Aerial view of Avarua Harbour
• Muri Lagoon on the southwest coast
• One of many coconut palms on the island
• Beach at Arorangi

Australia

Articles | Australia's Shark Bay - World Heritage Area Denham, Western Australia
Articles | Among the Giants - Ningaloo Reef's Whale Sharks Coral Bay, Western Australia

• Looking South from Cape Byron, NSW
• Three Sisters, Blue Mountains National Park, Katoomba, NSW, Australia
• Pinnacles Desert, Cervantes, Western Australia
• Aerial View of Lady Elliot Island on the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef
• Pink Acropora sp. off Lady Elliot Island
• Cape York Peninsula on descent into Cairns
• Estuarine Crocodile lounging on the Daintree River
• Hastings Reef on the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef
• Gorgonian of Lady Musgrave Island lagoon
• Trumpet fish of Norman Reef, Queensland
• Tridacna maxima giant clam...about a meter wide
• Whale shark outside of Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
• Bottlenosed Dolphins of Shark Bay, Western Australia
• Kookaburra of Broken River, Eungella National Park, Queensland
  
• Galahs on the shoulder of the North West Coastal Highway
• Eagle Bluff lookout
• A pelican on the beach at Monkey Mia
  
  

Caribbean and Central America

Antigua and Barbuda

• View from the Jolly Beach hotel
• St. John's, capital of Antigua and Barbuda
• Jolly Beach, Antigua
• Driving around Barbuda

Cuba

• Waterfall and swimming hole in Granma province
• Downtown Manzanillo, Cuba
• Beach with foothills of the SIerra Maestra in the background
• Cuba's Mona Lisa
• Home in the Sierra Maestra
• Lenin's dumber half frolicking in the Cuban sunshine
• Air plant, about 1 meter in diameter
• Bonito Tuna

Mexico

Articles | Caribbean Reefs - Sampling the Enchilada Reef System from the Mexican Yucatan Quintana Roo, Mexico

• Acropora sp., a common Caribbean stony coral
• A large brain coral of Tankah lagoon, south of Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
• Dendrogydra cylindrus of Half Moon Bay just north of Akumal
• A typical shallow reef along the Mayan Riviera; this one is at the south end of the beach at Bahia Principe Tulum
• A purple and beige sea fan; gorgonians are abundant in the Caribbean shallows
• Yellow encrusting Porites cover patches of inner reef at Tankah
• Pseudoplexaurella spp.are commonly encountered corals in the Caribbean and not found elsewhere
• Plexaurelle sp. of Tankah lagoon
• Maya city of Tulum
• Small Maya pyramid at Coba
• Snorkelling Crystal Cenote
• The entrance into Grand Cenote, Q.Roo

St. Lucia

• Gros and Petit Pitons south of Soufriere
• Anse Chastenet from the dive boat
• Diamond waterfall
• On the way to Gros Islet
• Old fort of Pigeon Island, built by the French
• Swimming downstream from the waterfall
• Marigot Bay or 'Hurricane Hole'
• Overlooking Petit Piton, the taller one

Panama

Articles | Gulf of Panama - Contadora Island Islas Las Perlas, Panama

• An aerial view of one of the smaller Pearl Islands
• A plane taking off at the bustling Contadora airport
• A boy and fighting rooster from Casaya
• Villa Eti, one of the many ritzy homes on Contadara
• Playa Larga in front of Hotel Contadora
• Playa Ejecutiva with Playa Canoa in the distance
• Children riding home from school
• A Pearl Islander sitting in front of his colourful home
• Row boat tethered at Playa Larga
• Napping shark at one of the hollow bommies
• A friendly puffer patiently awaiting his picture taking
• An angel on the shallow reef

Trinidad and Tobago

• Tidal inlet of Tobago
• Blue crab at the beach
• Little Tobago and Goat Island in the distance from Speyside
• Man O'War Bay,Tobago

North America

Canada

Articles | Pacific Canada - A Few Days Around Vancouver, British Columbia

• The Canadian Rockies from 30 000 feet
• Vancouver Building
• Gastown Steam Clock, Vancouver
• West Vancouver's lush Lighthouse Park
• Arbutus Trees of Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver
• Giant Black Slug of the West
• The view from atop Whistler in September
• Shannon Falls, Squamish, BC - On the way to Whistler
• Basket starfish snorkeling around Snake Island, Nanaimo, BC
• Kelp covered rocks
• Sea Perch among the kelp
• The ghostly figure of a seal swimming past
• Purple Basket Star just below the water line, Nanaimo, BC
• Rock face around Snake Island
• Pair of purple starfish
• Seals in the distance on Snake Island
• Palm tree growing in a Nanaimo parking lot
• Long Beach of Pacific Rim National Park
• Tofino, BC
• A washed up kelp whip, Long Beach
• Cochrane, Ontario at the rail line to Moosonee
• Moose River just south of Moosonee, about 20km upriver from James Bay, early Autumn
• Musk Ox of Banks Island, Northwest Territories
• Moose river boat that conducts tours to Hudson Bay
• A common loon, Gavia immer, on Duck Lake, Pickeral River System, Ontario
• The tidal shoreline of Ontario's ocean playgroud, Hudson Bay
• Remnant ice during the summer thaw of Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories
• Bush plane making a safety pass prior to landing on the Pickeral River
• The Slide; a favourite local swimming hole and a typical northern Ontario creek
• Native Cree tombstone of Moose Factory Island
• Roger Kuptana, the famous local polar bear hunter's skins hang outside to cure, Northwest Territories
• Sunset over James Bay in late summer

United States

Articles | Manatees - Exploring the Real Florida
Articles | Dry Tortugas National Park - Fort Jefferson

• Fort Jefferson from the air
• Pelican minding the entance to the fort
• A view of the fort while snorkelling
• Purple sea fan offshore
• A view from the moat
• Jumbo lobster we found snorkelling off the main beach
• Porcupine puffer among the sea whips
• The port of Key West from the air
• Dawn over the Homosassa River, Florida
• Manatee with veggie matter growing on his snout coming up for a breath
• Snorkeling with the manatees near Homosassa Springs, Florida
• Manatee, tired of the attention
• Waikiki sunset
• A view of Waikiki from Diamond Head
• North shore, Oahu
• Hanouma Bay, Oahu

South America

Colombia

• Baranquilla sunset
• Tayrona National Park
• Military police stomping around the bus gently after a routine road block
• Overlooking Santa Marta
• I'm feeling a little sleepy
• Tayrona National Park, Lintana Island
• Turkey vultures at the beach
• A freighter gone off course in Caribbean Colombia

Venezuela

• French Angel fish off Puerto La Cruz
• Tepui table mountains of Venezuela, the rightmost one is the origin of Angel Falls
• Arid island
• Angel Falls...the world's highest
• Near Lake Canaima, one of the tributaries of the Orinoco
• Blue and yellow sponges
• Orinoco river on the way to Canaima
• Doral Beach, Puerto La Cruz

Europe

Czech Republic

• Jewish graveyard in Josefov
• The Old Town astronomical clock
• Charles bridge across the Vltava River
• A view from Prague Castle made infamous by Franz Kafka

France

• Hot babes of Paris
• The graffiti covered headstone that is Jim Morrison's grave at Du Pere-LaChaise
• Eifel Tower
• The TGV arriving in Nice from Lyon

Norway

• Bergen, Norway, view of the harbour
• Midnight Sun in Bodo, Norway
• Crossing the Arctic Circle
• On the way to Flam up the longest fjord in the world, the Sognefjord
• A view from the Sognefjord mail boat
• Oslo's National Theater
• View of Bergen from the surrounding hills
• Our Bodo, Norway campground at 3am returning from midnight sun gazing

Spain and Balearic Islands

• Along the Valencia harbour, Spain
• Sailing past Mallorca
• The Pyrenees on the way to Barcelona
• Ibiza Town Square, Ibiza

Asia

Japan

• Buddist graves in Maebashi
• Hirujuki, Tokyo
• Hills of Kiryu
• Five tiered pagoda
• A monkey and young near Kiryu
• The Goddess of Mercy at Takasaki
• Tombstone alongside a Maebashi home
• Ground zero at Hiroshima stands as memorial to the bombing

 

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