Disney Wonder Sept 3-7, 2006 Part 5

[PirateCutie05]

Did you get snow?!! I woke up and got ready for an interview this morning and looked outside and holy crap!!! IT SNOWED!! Did you get snow Vicki??

This is the road I live on (See-- very, very close little munchkin institution!)



And my little house.



Pretty but it's sliiiick. Turns to slush in no time flat. I almost died a few times this morning.
Tom lives out on traditional country WV roads and went over a hill, backwards!! My dad (most careful, pain in the butt driver EVER!) did a 360. It's horrible out there!! (Although it doesn't look it ..)

We got snow!! So happy!!!

 

[Piecey]

We got snow!! So happy!!!

Whoops, I keep forgetting you're back.

I could really use a picture of the Great Barrier Reef right about now!!

I'm kinda happy to see it snow too, mostly glad I got to see snow before I left!
I'm pretty excited to spend Christmas down south this year, but it'll just be so weird! I knew it wouldn't be the same, me not living at home anymore.. but it'll be really different having it down there!

 

[PirateCutie05]

Haha yeah ok i'll upload some pictures now. I just got them on this computer last night right before bed...FINALLY!

 

[PirateCutie05]

Okay...all of these ones came from just snorkelling on my last day in Australia.

This is a BLUE starfish!! The first time I saw one was just in a tank...and then I saw a BUNCH out on the reef that day...it was INSANE how many there were!!

It's...NEMO! Haha, it took me forever to find these guys...and a guide had even pointed them out! Then after lunch I found a BUNCH on my own!

I like to call this the "Drop Off"...LIKE FROM THE MOVIE! Actually...I have a better looking "Drop Off" picture, it's just hiding. I took 548 pictures that day...

And then I found Gill. Needless to say I followed him around for a couple minutes snapping pictures of him.

There were giant clams ALL OVER THE PLACE! Of course this is an itty bitty one...the smaller ones had the prettier colors. They seriously were bright blues, purples, and teals!

Here's a blue one.

This is some pink thing that was pretty.

Something green? (I think it's a feather star...)

After that trip I decided I really did want to be an underwater photographer.

 

[Piecey]

After that trip I decided I really did want to be an underwater photographer.

I'll carry your equipment if it means I get to tag along!

 

[PirateCutie05]

I'll carry your equipment if it means I get to tag along!

Sure thing...just get SCUBA certified!!


I'm workin on making my beach pictures small enough to upload.

 

[Piecey]

Sure thing...just get SCUBA certified!!


I'm workin on making my beach pictures small enough to upload.

Uhm. Where does one go to get SCUBA certified in WV??
(I met the guy who runs SCUBA WV.. and he's a bit of a pothead.. )

I hate that with pictures. I always use the biggest setting on my camera and then if I wanna put them online, I've gotta resize them one by one..

 

[Piecey]

I'm off to conquer the mountains of laundry I've accumulated at the laundromat! (being unemployed sure is good for catching up on that household type stuff!)

Hope to see more pictures when I get back, Heidi!!

Have a good day!

 

[PirateCutie05]

Uhm. Where does one go to get SCUBA certified in WV??
(I met the guy who runs SCUBA WV.. and he's a bit of a pothead.. )

I hate that with pictures. I always use the biggest setting on my camera and then if I wanna put them online, I've gotta resize them one by one..

A pothead?? That can't mix well with SCUBA diving...

I know. It's so annoying. And I tried to make it a smaller setting once and my camera spazzed out on me saying that the pictures would be a poor quality. So I keep it on big...and that way I can edit/crop all I want.

 

[PirateCutie05]

They call their beach "The Strand".

My friend drew that in the sand.

This is me on the strand. So pretty.

I like how this one turned out.

I absolutely LOVE this picture.

This is Magnetic Island. (Aussie's call it "Maggie" for short.)

This is Castle Hill. It was right behind the strand.

It made a pretty backdrop.

This is some weird jungle gym thing. I had plans to make it to the top...but I just now realized I never went back and did it. (The ropes hurt my bare feet...that's why I didn't go all the way to the top the first time. )

 

[purplern]

Did you get snow?!! I woke up and got ready for an interview this morning and looked outside and holy crap!!! IT SNOWED!! Did you get snow Vicki??

This is the road I live on (See-- very, very close little munchkin institution!)

Pretty but it's sliiiick. Turns to slush in no time flat. I almost died a few times this morning.
Tom lives out on traditional country WV roads and went over a hill, backwards!! My dad (most careful, pain in the butt driver EVER!) did a 360. It's horrible out there!! (Although it doesn't look it ..)

Yeah we got snow too!!! It was bad yesterday! And they didnt cancell school
! It is pretty.

 

[purplern]

Heidi Love the pictures keep them coming!!!!!!

 

[LCTsMom]

Heidi, your pictures are magnificent! Keep them coming, I am in awe...........

What kind of camera do you use? Do you have an underwater housing? (I am advanced open water certified, can I help with your equipment?? )

 

[PirateCutie05]

Heidi, your pictures are magnificent! Keep them coming, I am in awe...........

What kind of camera do you use? Do you have an underwater housing? (I am advanced open water certified, can I help with your equipment?? )

I have an Olympus Stylus 410 and yup I have underwater housing for it. Vicki gave me the site. I was gonna get it before the September cruise last year but I just didn't have time...but I got it before the Christmas cruise and we had a lot of fun with it. It's a good thing I got it then too, cause I was on the Olympus site the other day and they don't make housing for my camera anymore! (I think it's a touch out-dated.)

Sure you can help with the equipment...you're already more certified than me! I thought about going advanced in Australia but it was just so weird diving without Holly...and plus it was a lot of money and I wanted to come home with at least a LITTLE bit left over.

 

[Piecey]

Heey. Did my job just get stolen by Lisa??

FINE!


I'll carry the luggage..

 

[PirateCutie05]

Heey. Did my job just get stolen by Lisa??

Nope! I could use two assistants!! I saw some guy with a BIG (and probably expensive) underwater camera...I could probably use all the help I can get!

 

[Piecey]

Nope! I could use two assistants!! I saw some guy with a BIG (and probably expensive) underwater camera...I could probably use all the help I can get!

Phew!

 

[LCTsMom]

Fear not Patsy, I haven't been diving in over 16 years (thanks to Logan ). Your job is safe. I just wanted to get my foot in the door, just in case....

 

[PirateCutie05]

These ones came from a place called Cape Tribulation up in the Daintree Rainforest. It's a little further north than Cairns and is the only place in the world where a rainforest "meets" a coral reef. All the underwater pictures came from me SCUBA diving!!

It was a really beautiful place.

There are SO many butterflies in Australia, not just in the rainforest!! THere is this REAL pretty blue one called a Ulysses and a picture does not do it justice. It is so vibrantly blue.

THis is what they mean by rainforest meeting the reef...it comes all the way out to the sand. And up in Cape Trib is where the Great Barrier Reef comes the closest to the shoreline.

It was SO pretty out there.

And I jumped off the roof of a boat!!

It's a stingray but it's hard to see...it was a bit "sedimenty" when we first got down there.

These corals were absolutely beautiful. My camera captured them pretty good but I still don't think a picture does them justice. They were kinda "blah" colored most of the way through but then a real pretty light blue at the tips. I was just awed.

Green was a popular color during that dive.

Green and light blue.

I'm not sure what these things are but they were real pretty.

And we all got to hold a sea cucumber!!

I had a lot of fun.

We went horseback riding before we left Cape Trib...it was a lot of fun too!!

And that's just me standing out in front of the ocean.

 

[zweihund]

Beautiful!!!!!