Since we've been to Antigua many times before, we selected another excursion. Today's (Christmas Eve!) adventure is a Photographic Tour with a guide who is going to tell us how to compose pictures. We'll visit three photo worthy sites and he'll offer suggestions and comments.
This was our guide. He makes his living on the island as a commercial photographer. And a snorkel and dive instructor. And a tour guide. And probably shiatsu massage instructor. His camera of choice was an iPhone, ostensibly because he could then use the display to show his composition. He would show the group his photo of choice and then the group would line up to take the exact same picture. We didn't. All of the pictures below were NOT approved by our tour guide, who was a nice guy. Very island.
Our first stop was Fort James, guarding the harbor where we were docked. Old buildings and cannon.
This looks like an opportunity for something...
The second stop was a historic sugar mill. This is another island that subsisted on sweet sugar cane (and now relies on sour tourists) so there were mills all over the island.
Devil's Bridge is a natural feature replicated across the globe wherever erosion has created a pocket or hole in the coastline. When a wave arrives it funnels into the pocket and explodes upward. This one is unique in that there is a bridge across the inlet to the pocket.. Risk takers go to the lower level and across the bridge. I stayed on the upper level.
Using my camera's continuous mode, I shot a bunch of pictures every time a good size wave approached. Out of the more than 300 pictures, here's the biggest and best.
Finally, at Long Bay Beach, there's a carving planted into the sand. The beach was wonderful, but Antigua claims 365 of them, and they're all wonderful. I can see why you'd become a professional instructor here.
In the shops by the dock.
Back aboard, the various departments of the ship were given the challenge to create Christmas trees unique to their group. This is from the printers, and "leaves" are copies of the daily newsletter distributed on the ship.
From housekeeping.
From the bar service
Finally, it's Christmas Eve and the entertainment group went through the ship caroling. They didn't know my request, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". Not surprising since Eddie had to read the lyrics to "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" from his cheat sheet as the group was singing.
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