Hey all
We are not long back from our hols to New York and Florida.
Here are some pics I managed to get while out there.
This first one is on approach to Newark airport just outside New York.
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This is a view from the Empire State Building taken by my bro as I am not too good with the heights.
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This was taken from 34000ft in alot of turbulance on our way from New York to Tampa Florida.
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These next few are of a thunderstorm that drifted up Tampa Bay at 745am. That is The Tampa Skyway Bridge in the distance. It is something like 18 storeys tall.
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At this stage my bro and I decided to go a walk down to the bay front to see if we could get some more pics. This is the Anna Maria local pier. It is a restaurant at the end with fishermen fishing for sharks.
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One of the fishermen told us that there had been a waterspout in the bay the day before and pointed out this wall type cloud lowering. There was alot of wind being sucked into the storm at this point and a mini funnel looked like it was trying to form.
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Here is one of a sunset to the north of the island on a place called Bean Point.
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Here is a pic of a dolphin playing right in front of us. On this particualar morning we decided to get up for sunrise to watch this fish feeding. (Sharks are frequently spotted at this time.) We were sitting at the end of the pier that I photographed above, when this dolphin decided to give us a free show. The local fishermen were all laughing at us snapping away with the camera. The dolphin jumped 4 or 5 times.
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Caught this one on another pier. This was incredible to watch. They dive bomb for fish. They certainly could give the local fishermen a lesson or two.
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On this night we decided to drive to a place called St Armands Circle in Sarasota. We spotted this car which is $1,150,000!! There were houses for sale in this area for $53 million.
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These last 3 were taken in Orlando Florida. We were in Downtown Disney when this huge storm arrived. ( This was the thunderstorm that delayed Nasa launching the shuttle). It lasted at least 4 hours and we were totally soaked running to get the car. The roads were like mini streams at one point. But the drainage systems were incredible. The water dissapeared instantly. The lpcal weather channel had said that this storm produced over 5200 lightning strikes. I have got some video of lightning that I will have to post up. My brother also got some nice pics.
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All in all this was an amazin hol! I want to go back lol
Stu
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