Friday, February 13, 2009

cruise, Jan. 31, walking around Nassau

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After our berry soup, we went into Nassau. Everything near the pier is very touristy. The diamond shops, the very-expensive-watch shops, the Fendi shops. Set off by the very-tacky-souvenir shops.....

I wanted postcards. Holland America sells very nice postcards and greeting cards, at least on the Ryndam. Royal Caribbean tacky postcards with an ugly picture of the ship (really, do they think I'm *buying* postcards of their ship?), and no greeting cards that I saw.

So I was on a mission to find postcards. I was eventually successful, but they were ok postcards instead of really nice ones. Ah well.

Let's look at the plants, instead of the touristy stuff. Note silver palm (my name; I've no idea of its actual name), about which more soon.











Here is something else we can admire. The plants above were in a park in front of this government building.





I read in a guidebook that the saying here originated in a contest for school children. I like it, and I like the animals that were chosen.





We walked along the main drag for a few blocks, and then headed up the hill away from the ocean. Things very quickly stopped being all nice and taken care of. There were still nice things, but they were interspersed with falling-down things which were waiting to be razed and replaced.











I don't like taking pics of ugly stuff. Good thing I'm not a journalist.

But here is one building which has been abandoned, for the moment at least, to the birds and the ... bromeliads?.





Upon consideration, I'm not sure why I decided instantly that the plants are bromeliads, but I did. The birds look like doves.





Here's that pretty pink building I shot from the ship. From this angle I didn't have to 'shop out the cell tower!

You know I am not a pastel pink person, but I love this with its white trim and its dome on the tower. Set off by palm trees.





More and more interesting plants.





See the big pods, upper left?





These were quite large -- at least 2" across.





Another tree.





Same individual as above, if I remember correctly.





Ah, now THIS is pink I can get behind, even without white trim, domes, or palm trees!



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