Our ship in dock at Norfolk.
USS Wisconsin from our balcony in Norfolk.
Our corridor, approximately 73 miles long.
Passing Virginia Beach on the way to the Caribbean.
The movie screen on the Lido deck. "The Bee Movie" is playing.
On deck the first night of the cruise.
Lightning storm in the distance - from our balcony.
The view from our balcony on the first morning.
Carnival funnel.
This is how we watched the movies on the Lido Deck.
Enjoying the movie.
The water slide on the Lido Deck.
The Panamanian ship flag flying over our balcony.
Our progress chart. Norfolk - Nassau - Freeport - Norfolk.
Our room steward left us towel animals. This one's a dog.
At the captain's party on our formal night, we were stuck watching the sunset from one of the lounges inside. Still pretty though!
Our disco dance lesson captain - our team won the coveted plastic cruise trophy.
Pulling into Nassau.
Picturesque lighthouse at Nassau.
'Atlantis' on Paradise Island - from our balcony.
Nassau from our balcony.
Ships from Carnival, Disney and Royal Caribbean in Nassau - from our balcony.
Welcome!
At customs in Nassau.
Market at the port in Nassau.
Our balcony is the one directly above those people.
Some hints of a British past at the Nassau Hilton.
The beach in Nassau - "Western Esplanade". Our ship is in the background.
At the beach in Nassau. Our ship is on the left.
Heather blowing an underwater kiss.
Stephen blowing an underwater kiss.
Sea Urchin.
Putting the sea urchin back home.
Glass minnows at the beach in Nassau. These guys can be used as anchovies.
Sunken treasure.
Sea fan.
Heather drying off in the sun on the Nassau beach.
It's a seal!
A private ship that pulled up alongside our cruise ship. It was huge and everything was luxurious. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Bleu_(yacht)"
The water from the 'Zambizi'.
School of sergent majors.
Sergent majors over a reef.
More sergent majors.
Sergent majors were the most common fish we saw, but they're very pretty.
Sergent majors getting close.
Real close.
Reef.
Some more reef.
Where there's no coral, there's pure white sand.
Lots of fish close to Heather.
Heather being swarmed by sergent majors and yellow tail snapper. She had some fish food with her.
Feeding frenzy!
Stephen with some fish food.
Stephen just got bit by a snapper!
Close up of the beautiful yellow tail snappers.
More snapper over the wreck.
Plane wreck in the background.
Yellow tail snapper brushing by the camera.
These subs only went down to about 15 feet. Heather was free diving further than that!
Cool plane wreck about 25 feet deep!
Nobody inside...
Heather coming up from the wreck.
Stephen almost making it to the wreck.
Trying it again.
Stephen surfacing.
Look at that water!
Southern Stingray gliding along the reef. We were really excited to see that!
If you look hard enough you'll see a lot of small jellies that we found ourselves in the middle of.
Uh-oh. Smashed shark cage...
Cool reef formation.
Lots of fish.
More of the reef.
More of the reef. Trying to snap a picture of the bluehead wrasse in the center of the photo.
Heather at the reef.
Stephen going in for a closer look.
Stephen going down to the reef.
Starfish about 25 feet below.
Gotcha!
Caribbean reef shark. The spots in the foreground are 'sea thimbles' that were everywhere.
Caribbean reef shark
Caribbean reef shark getting close.
Caribbean reef sharks.
Caribbean reef shark a few feet below us.
Caribbean Reef Shark.
Caribbean Reef Shark close to Stephen's fin.
Yellow tail Snapper among the Caribbean Reef Sharks.
Caribbean Reef Shark. You can see the chum bucket to the right.
Caribbean Reef Shark. You can also see some jellies and some yellow tail snapper.
Caribbean Reef Shark from the boat.
Feeding Frenzy!
Sharks eating the yellow tail snapper.
Stuart Cove's took us out snorkeling to see the reefs, wreck and sharks.
We went out on the 'Zambizi'.
Some Bahamas soda, extremely sweet.
An elephant!
Sergent major under a pier in Nassau.
Heather spotted a sea urchin.
Sea urchins, coral and feather dusters.
Sea Urchin, feather dusters and an Angelfish.
Cool little reef fish.
More of the Angelfish.
Angelfish, urchins and feather dusters.
Anemone peeking out from under the rocks.
Sea Urchins at Nassau. A small anemone on the left.
Angelfish.
Juvenile bluehead wrasse by the urchin.
Angelfish with some feather duster worms.
More feather dusters.
Parrotfish?
More parrotfish.
Parrotfish.
Anemone living inside a queen conch.
Nudibranch?
Huge hermit crab in a shell bigger than a rugby ball.
Coral.
Cool little crab like the ones from Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
Melon head on the cruise.
Heather wanted a coconut.
In the water at Port Lucaya.
Lovely hibiscus in Port Lucaya.
