The Best Pictures in My Trips (2002-2008)

2002

• Alaska - September
  leaving from Vancouver on Celebrity
  Winnie just bought her first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 2500.

2003

• Bahamas cruise (Winnie with her father) - Feb.
• California (visiting Chi Wei, Rita, Brandon and Byrant) - Aug.
• LV (Winnie with her father) - October

2004

• Caribbean - Mar. 27 (Sat) to Apr. 4 (Sun)
  leaving from Puerto Rico by Norwegian Sky in 3/28 Sun evening, arrived at Puerto Rico one day before.
  Port:  St. Thomas, USVI (3/29, 1st Port)
  Port:  2nd Port?, probably Antigua - All Antigua beaches are open to the public.  On beaches without resorts, bars and restaurants offer beach chair rentals and facilities.
  Port:  Fort-de-France, Martinique (3/31, 3rd Port)   Photo
  Port:  Sint Maarten (4/1, 4th Port)
  Port:  Road Town, Tortola / Virgin Gorda, BVI (4/2, 5th and last Port)
  Virgin Gorda is the third-largest (after Tortola and Anegada) and second most populous of the British Virgin Islands (BVI).  Tortola is the largest and most populated of the BVI.
• Hong Kong / Japan
  • Pictures
  • Info: 京都 Uji (宇治市) - Cormorant fishing (鵜飼) can be seen on summer nights along the Uji River (宇治川). Fishermen using fire, nets and trained birds make for an exciting spectacle.  more  more2
  • The types of cormorants used differ based on the location. In Gifu, Japan, the Japanese Cormorant (P. capillatus) is used; Chinese fishermen often employ Great Cormorants (P. carbo).^[2] Darters (Anhinga), which are very close relatives of cormorants, are also used for this fishing technique on occasion.  more
  • 如何安排京都及宇治(赏枫)一日游车程 - 2010-11 - 东福寺刚好在京都去宇治路上且是一个赏枫的最佳景点之一. 早上就直接去宇治(平等院;兴圣寺), 中午去东福寺看能不能闪过一些人潮, 下午三点趁闭寺前到三十三间堂, 晚上再去河原町. 晚上还可到清水寺附近赏夜枫. more  mirror
  • 京都 大堰川 嵐山鵜飼  more

2005

• San Diego - Apr.
  • K:\MemoriesOnTV\workDir has these photo and Cancun DVD
  • Google Photo   another Google Photo
  • Visited San Diego Zoo Safari Park (also called by its former name, "Wild Animal Park") is located near Escondido, in the San Pasqual Valley. 
• Cancun - May - Google Photo   Google Photo (my private original link)   Picasa
• Bahamas - Sep.
  leaving from New York by Norwegian Dawn, staying at a stateroom with "Oceanview" (a small window)
  Port:  one is missed (probably Great Stirrup Cay) due to weather.  Nassau, Great Stirrup Cay, Miami, Orlando (Port Canaveral)?, Grand Bahama Island? 

2006

• Europe - May 21-28 by Norwegian Jewel
  Ports: Barcelona, Spain (21), MESSINA, ITALY (23), NAPLES/POMPEII, ITALY (24), CIVITAVECCHIA (ROME), ITALY (25), LIVORNO, ITALY (26), NICE, FRANCE (27), Barcelona, Spain (28)
  • Just bought the new camera Canon A620
  • Visit The Exotic Garden of Eze on the day of Nice, France.

• Maryland - Labor Day
  • Butterfly (probably a skipper; a Brushfoot?)
  • Turtle & Tim
  • Winnie & (Her?) Children
  • Crabs & Frank
  • Crab Gone, Frank Gone
  • GIANT TREE & 2 "small potatoes"
  • Fish & Snake
  • more ...
• Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge - 2006 Sep. 9
  • Mute Swam 
  • West Pond - very big file (7MB)!
• My neighbors - 2006 Sep. 29
  • House Sparrow
  • Love at first sight
  • Hate at 2nd thought
  • Escape
  • Lunch
  • Pigeon
  • Bye
• My neighbors - 2006 Oct. 9
  • Stitch
  • Overview
• Alley Pond Park - 2006 Oct. 22
  • NYC Greenway
  • CloseUp
• Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge - 2006 Nov. 18
  • Blow away the fall
  • Winter hardies
  • Many are still there
  • One in the world - Closer look
  • Flying 1
  • Flying 2
  • Top 3
  • No turning back
  • On the way to Dim Sum
  • West Pond again! But this is color - very big file (7MB)!

2007

• Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge - Jun. 7
  • Killdeer
  • Killdeer did the "broken-wing act"
  • video
• Fire Island - Jun. 30
  • Common Tern
• Hong Kong - Nov 21 - Dec 11
• bird-watching at Kowloon Park 11-23-2007
• others -
  深圳 :
  黑尾蜡嘴雀,
  HK :
  白胸翠鳥(White-breasted Kingfisher) 學名是 Halcyon smyrnensis. 在台灣叫蒼翡翠,
  普通翡翠 (Common Kingfisher), 
  池鷺(Chinese Pond Heron),
  黑領掠鳥 (Black-collared starling),
  紫啸鸫/紫嘯鶇 (Blue Whistling Thrush),
  麻鷹(黑鳶),
  鳳頭鷹(Crested Goshawk),
  磯鷸(Common Sandpiper),
  反嘴鷸(Pied Avocet), 
  青脚鹬(Common Greenshank),
  黑翅长脚鹬(Black-winged Stilt), 
  林鹬(Wood Sandpiper),
  大白鷺(Eastern Great Egret , Ardea modesta),  
  噪鵑 (Asian Koel),
  鵲鴝 (Oriental Magpie Robin) ,
  白鶺鴒, 灰鶺鴒, 黃鶺鴒,
  紅耳鵯, 白頭鵯,
  黑臉噪鶥(七姊妺),
  黑喉噪鶥(Black-throated Laughingthrush),
  棕背伯勞 ,
  紅咀藍鵲(Blue Magpie) ,
  珠頸斑鳩,
  小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡,
  亞歷山大鸚鵡,
  紅領綠鸚鵡,  長尾縫葉鶯,
  暗綠繡眼鳥 (相思, 台灣多稱為綠繡眼, Japanese White-eye ) , 
  麻雀 (Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Passer montanus ), etc.
  (the above list includes those seen in 2009 and 2010)  
• 香港市區公園常見的野生雀鳥 : http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/tc/green/birds/overview.html (12/2015)    http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/green/birds/b5/overview.html (old)
• url: http://www.hkbws.org.hk/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=Birdingtips;action=display;num=1087620435
• 鶺鴒 myNote

2008

• Toronto trip - Jun.
  • Selected pictures
• Henry/Rita house gathering - Jul. 4
  • Unedited pictures

Before the above,

1. 1998 Summer before getting nysif job, Yellowstone with Robert So & Enid

2. Grand Canyon

3. Maine with Robert So & Sammy Lee and his nephew/niece

4. Rocky Mountain National Park with Kin Szeto's family.  I am the driver.

States I have visited: VT NH ME(Maine) MA MD CT PA NY NJ Delaware NC? VI  GA FL IL AZ NV Idaho WY UT CA HI AK CO RI SC WA

Added on 11/30/2014:  MT (Montana - Glacier National Park); on 2013: LA (New Orleans)

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