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The Sea



The color of the water docked at Philipsburg, Sint Maartan

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The pilot boat coming out from Sint Maartan





I’m guessing this is Charlotte Amalie.

Pulling into Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas at dawn










Yes, it was a hot as it looks here!

No, you're never truly alone at sea – it just seems that way! (That’s a container carrier, a couple of miles away.)

A couple of passers-by

Near as I can figure out, these are albatrosses. I wasn’t able to get a picture of the underwing, and all the identification info on the web shows the underwing.





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Now, before you complain that these pix are fuzzy and small, this is what the actual distance was.



So, I consider the fact that I actually got these speedy little guys in frame at all to be a hellofa triumph! (Much less with a telephoto lens from a ship steaming at full speed!)



So, a round of applause for my new camera! The Canon PowerShot SX10 IS has an incredibly powerful 20x Optical Zoom, 10-megapixel resolution, and new DIGIC 4 Image Processor for high-performance face and motion detection.