Palms of My Trip to The Bahamas!

[Xerarch]

Recently I had the opportunity to take a Disney cruise to the Bahamas, this was my first cruise of any kind and also was my first experience in a truly tropical climate (although the islands are actually outside the tropics). The trip was fantastic and I really enjoyed the tropical material even though none of the stops we made would be known for their exceptional palm diversity. Also, I was the only one who was really interested in palms so since nobody else really cared I didn't get either the quantity or quality of shots that I would have liked to, I'm sure some of you have experienced similar things while traveling with family. Actually, I was just traveling with my two oldest children with all of my wife's family while she stayed on shore with our new 6 week old baby. We did not schedule this trip, my wife's aunt did before anybody knew we would be having a brand new baby

We'll start with this queen at my in-law's house in Cocoa, Fl, I always thought this was a very nice specimen, if only all queens looked like this one.

Here is the first look at the ship in Port Canaveral Florida, after getting on the barrier island you start to see some cocos and foxtails in this photo

Another view with the ship

And we're off! saying goodby to Port Canaveral and the USA

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Arriving in Nassau Bahamas, you can see the famous Atlantis Resort in the background

On land in Nassau, some nice coconuts behind us

One of the first non-coconuts we get to

Check out this waterslide that actually goes slightly over the edge of the ship

Edited November 8, 2014 by Xerarch

[Xerarch]

Saw some really nice Bismarks among other things in this plaza

Nice row of P. sylvestris

Adonidia I suppose

Kids drinking out of a fresh coconut, we have gave it back to girl that ran the cart after and she cut it open and scooped out the flesh for us, so much better than old, dry, supermarket coconut

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Next we're arriving at Disney's private island, Castaway Cay

Getting closer

Ahhhh

Palms on the beach

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A view of the whole ship

Took a timeout for Halloween on the ship

Don't want to leave the little guy and his costume out even though he wasn't on the ship

Back to paradise!

Sure I want to swim here? Pretty sure this is mostly major CYA by Disney, the water and snorkeling were awesome, no problems at all

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The great symbol of the tropics

Some really great color on the Bismarks down there

I found this by stepping on it, ouch, I took a couple photos before I threw it back into the water, made sure to throw it where nobody was likely to step on it again

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Hey a little variety in the palmage

A nice bottle

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Thumbnail photo while posting is super small, I can't tell what this is and I don't remember

Coccothrinax? Maybe someone can enlighten me

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Back at port in Canaveral

Some foxtails to greet us

A groups of coconuts saying goodby as we leave the terminal

I think that's about it, hope you enjoyed! Again sorry I didn't get the best shots and the best variety, but I had a lot of priorities on the trip and had an awesome time.

[aztropic]

Coccothrinax? Maybe someone can enlighten me

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Thrinax radiata.

aztropic

Mesa,Arizona

[Xerarch]

Thanks, I figured it was one of those thrinax something or others, I don't have them all straight.

[Ken Johnson]

Thumbnail photo while posting is super small, I can't tell what this is and I don't remember

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Coccothrinax? Maybe someone can enlighten me

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Coccthrinax? is a Thrinax

[Xerarch]

Thrinax is native to the Bahamas, I wish I could have explored around the island a little more and found some palms in habitat, of course everything I took photos of was planted, or maybe transplanted for the species that might be native to the island, obviously the coconuts and most of the others are introduced.