Randall's Photo Blog

We went on a short Caribbean cruise recently and what I mainly wanted to do was some snorkeling. I had the mask, fins and underwater housing for my old Sony W1 camera but haven't had the chance to use them for quite a while. The cruise ship was supposed to spend a day at an island and I thought that this would be a good time to get in some underwater fun. Unfortunately, the winds picked up and the tenders that were to take us to the island couldn't safely transfer passengers. So we spend the day at sea and the only pictures I had with the waterproof camera were taken in the hot tub.

The next day we docked in Nassau, Bahamas and we went out on a small boat to snorkel. I really don't know a lot about the areas around these islands but I have the feeling that where we were taken was not exactly the best spot. We were limited by how much time we could take and wound up just outside the harbour. They also had us wear this inflatable life vest and it made diving down to get a closer look a challenge. Still I got some OK shots:

I'm not really sure about this case. It cost $250 - quite a lot of money and makes the camera bulky and very hard to use. However, it is supposed to be good down to 40 meters which is a lot deeper than some of the newer underwater cameras. On the other hand, I didn't get below 3 meters on this trip...

It was hard to use - a lot of the time I was pointing the camera and pressing the shutter while unable to see anything on the screen. I use it so rarely though, it doesn't seem like I can justify a new camera.

On the flight back from Florida we flew over New York City and up on the east side of the Hudson river. I was able to get some nice shots as we descended into Albany.

Lower Manhattan.

Central park.

GW bridge

Tappan Zee bridge.

Looking at the Catskill mountains from the east - where I grew up.

A nice long view of the Hudson.

This last one is Delaware Ave. - our street. This is the view from Albany looking towards Delmar. The Delaware Plaza is on the left.