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Amie on the lawn boy's power scooter, in front of the house.
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Now I'm on the same scooter. Whee.
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Mango, a ball of pure kitten energy.
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Mango, headed for trouble, most certainly.
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Grand Baham Key, 'Our Lucaya' beach.
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White sand...
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Amie in the ocean.
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Still recovering from too much travel, just laying on the beach reading 'Woody Guthrie, A life'. Good book.
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Amie's coming out of the ocean.
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Barely braving the great outdoors beyond our hotel room.
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Where's the tequila?
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I'm proud of my two month old beard, in spite of knowing that its pathetic.
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Touring Grand Bahama by kayak. Mangrove tunnels.
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Mike, our guide, was very good at entertaining himself. And us, usually.
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Ocean view. This is where the kayak trip ended.
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Low budget very practicle PVC-based kayak trailer.
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Fish and their shadows.
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Amie feeding a raccoon.
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Herman the hermit crab.
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Still on our tour. Amie and I about to go swimming.
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Amie in front of Gold Rock.
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Ain't swimming fun?
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My turn to pose in front of Gold Rock.
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I'm going for a not-too-graceful dive. Egads, I'm loosing my shorts.
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Grand Bahama is the ultimate tourist trap, but you have to admit it has some nice looking beachfront.
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Fun swing.
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Still on our tour. Now we're on the nature walk.
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That's a bat. We're in a cave. As the Bahamas are made of limestone, they have one of the most extensive cave systems in the world.
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Are you talking to me\!\?
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More bats in more caves.
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Climbing down the spiral staircase into darkness.
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No shortage of bats down here.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
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Amie asked the guide if it was all right to swim in the bat cave, and he said yes. He blinked, and when he opened his eyes again she was in the water. He was shocked, commenting 'No one ever actually took me up on it before.'
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It's fresh water on top of salt water. And the bat guano is good for your hair...
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Amie in Paradise Cove on Grand Bahama.
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Enjoying Paradise Cove.
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Our view from the sand.
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The conch industry is big in the Bahamas. Yikes\!
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It was a little embarassing riding that silly bike, but it did get us around. My first foray into legally driving on the left side of the road - scarey stuff! This is the Chicken's Nest, a quant restaurant on the West End with only two items on the menu. We had both.
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About to get on our boat back to the mainland. A pretty place, but far too touristy...