Small Islands and Big Cities: Photos and Videos

Havelock Island and Port Blair Photos:

01 - One of the Andaman Islands from our plane (taken by Carrie) 02 - Sunset over Beach 7 03 - Moon over Havelock 03a - The main road of Havelock 04 - One of the giant roots torn up by the 2004 tsunami (taken by Carrie) 05 - Carrie and I in a mangrove field 05a - Mangroves approching Elephant Beach 06 - Sunset from the ferry ride to Havelock (taken by Carrie) 07 - Man on a ship at the Port Blair dock 08 - Dirty oil barrels on the ferry to Havelock 09 - One of the jellyfish. Imagine thousands more of them and us diving through that wall 09a - Our scuba diving boat. Usually they are big ships, this was the smallest one we have ever used (taken by Carrie) 10 - Fun in the ocean 11 - I found this hillarious...it's a rickshaw tricycle 12 - One of the blessed geckos that feasted on the mosquitos at our guest house 13 - Sunset 14 - Working on my bloggings 15 - Pelican Guest House, our home for a week 16 - The outside of our room in Havelock 17 - The inside of our guesthouse room in Havelock. We took shelter under the mosquito net every night after sunset when they were out with a vengance 18 - A group of hermit crabs 19 - Hermit crab closeup 20 - A local boy plays with Carrie's new drum (taken by Carrie) 21 - A sleeping water buffalo 22 - The view from the beach behind our hotel with the tide out looked like Mars. The people on the URS are standing that far out (taken by Carrie) 23 - One of the ways we staved off hunger while waiting more than an hour for a meal 24 - Sand in driftwood 25 - So much mist after a sunset on Beach 7 26 - Yet another development...coming soon to ruin the pristine land 27 - Our ferry back to Port Blair (taken by Carrie) 28 - The upper class section on the ferry home (taken by Carrie)

Chennai Photos:

29 - Chennai from above 30 - Sewing up our package for sending back to the USA 31 - The white manequin selling burkas at the burka store across the street from our Chennai hotel 32 - The streets of Chennai are abandoned at 404am 33 - The empty Chennai Beach train station at 412am 34 - The early risers on the 420am train from Chennai Beach 35 - The early risers on the 420am train from Chennai Beach

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