Izzywiz

Zhujiajiao Water Town near Shanghai, China

India

Mauritius

Good morning fellow posters. You've added lovely Z pictures already and I have a few to contribute but, first, I'd like to reiterate how much I have enjoyed taking part in this thread. I've loved looking at all he fabulous and creative photographs and have noted places that I would like to visit and reminisced when seeing places where we have been. It has also been great searching through our own pictures and challenging Jim to come up with relevant birds. I do hope Damian can can come up with another thread.....

Here are my Zs..

Zebra Dove, USA Hawaii.

Zenaida Dove Jamaica

Zebras, South Africa

and my last Ys...

Yangon, Myanmar

Yangtze River

Yorkey's Knob, near Cairns, Australia

Israel

Yokohama, Japan

Yalta, Crimean Peninsula

Y places this time.....

All these were visited on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Costa Maya

Cozumel

Playa del Carmen

and the stunning Inca temple site at Tulum

Yachts and Yurts

Yacht, Whitsunday Islands, Australia.

 Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

 Palamos, Spain

Monte Carlo

Yurt in Kyrgyzstan on a pre-cruise tour.

and Kazakhstan

More yellows....

Boudicca's tender

Costa Luminosa

Zanzibar

Crete

Nice, France

Taxis in Athens

Valetta, Malta

Plants next...

Australia

Sunflowers in the sunflower garden, Changi airport, Singapore

Sunflower fields, Rhone River Cruise,

Norway

Panjim market, Goa, 

India

Fabulous Y pictures already. Here are mine...

 Yellow-footed Green Pigeon Myanmar

Yellow-billed Kite Gambia.

Yellow-crowned Gonolek Gambia.

Yellow-Headed Caracara Panama.

Yellow-faced Grassquit Jamaica

Yoked together, Guilin, China, and Bali. It's difficult to believe that these pictures were taken years apart as the farmers and oxen could be twins!

Oooooo...you are funny but I like you!. Now the weather is getting cooler, I really must hunt out my 'sexy little nighty'...hahaha!

I hadn't thought of X-rated but when I saw the naughty elephants it reminded me of our encounter with a couple of frisky lions. Fortunately, they were more interested in each other than us!!!

My only other X photographs are from a pre-cruise land tour that we did of China and stayed in Xian from where we visited the Terracotta warriors.

I was fascinated by China and should have been back last May for another land tour until the dreaded virus came and everything was cancelled.

I thought old Xian was beautiful and my photographs really don't do it justice.

My hair is 'silver' and my friend has vibrant red hair so we became celebrities with lots of groups wanting selfies with us!!

Seeing the Terracotta Warriors was an unforgettable experience

I must say that I always appreciate comments about my posts. My husband positively glows when someone comments on his bird photographs and I certainly love every picture. people have spent a lot of time and effort to match up their photographs to the theme.

X is a really tricky one so I think we have to be eXtra creative.....lol

my contributions......

X = Crossbill

and Celebrity Cruise Line's logo is an X. 

Xingang was our port in China from where we were able to visit Tianjin and Beijing. There wasn't a lot to see...

My very last Ws are of the village of Wewak in Papua New Guinea. We called there on Boudicca in January this year and were made so welcome by the local people. There wasn't much to see by western standards but the Wewakians were so proud of what they had.

White Cliffs, Beachy Head on the way to our Rhone River Cruise, France

White water rafting, Costa Rica.

 Weymouth

Women only carriages on Dubai's monorail system, Splendour of the Seas

Wuhan, China

The museum in Wuhan was full of the most amazing exhibits including this remarkable musical instrument.

Waikiki Beach, Honolulu

Wailing Wall, Jerusalem

Warrior, Fiji.

Wellington, NZ

Whistler, Canada

Sao Tome

Dusky Sound, New Zealand

Saguenay, Canada.

St John's, Canada

Tahiti

Waterlily, Sydney Botanical Gardens

Hi Damian, I'm so happy to hear that you are working on a new thread. It has been such a pleasure working to find appropriate pictures for these two threads and has kept me occupied for many otherwise boring hours.

Here are a few more of my Ws...Waterfalls this time.

Gullfoss waterfall, Iceland

Iguazu Falls, Argentina

Mauritius,

Myrdal waterfall, Flam, Norway

Rainbow Falls, Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, without the rainbow

Grenada

The Kuang Si waterfall in Laos is one of the most beautiful places that I have been to...

W is for weddings...

Myanmar

South Africa

Topkapi Palace, Istanbul

Venice

This is my favourite wedding. It was being held at a temple in New Mangalore, India. The bride looked so beautiful....

Climbing Wall, Splendour of the Seas

Windmill, Rhodes

Washing Windows, Ho Chi Min City

Washing clothes, Irrawaddy River

Writing, China

Welcome signs

Indonesia

Shop sign in Seoul, South Korea.

Warning sign, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

I hope these signs that were on shops by our hotel in Hong Kong do not offend! Hahaha...

Water buffalo, South Africa

Warthog, Zimbabwe

Whale, Indian Ocean

Weaver Bird nest, South Africa

White horses of the Camargue. Rhone River Cruise, France

 White-Throated Kingfisher India.

 Golden-Olive Woodpecker Trinidad

Yucatan Woodpecker, Belize.

Cedar Waxwing, Canada.

Wattled Jacana, Panama.

I love the Ws so here are mine....birds first and lots of them I'm afraid

Wahlberg's Eagle South Africa

 White-Breasted Woodswallow Australia.

Desert Wheatear, Oman

White-fronted Parrot, Belize.

Whimbrel, Gambia

White-Fronted Bee-Eater, Zimbabwe

 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck.

White-crowned Sparrow, USA

White-Collared Kingfisher, Philippines.

We were upgraded, slightly, from our usual inside cabin to the one with the virtual balcony. It's a clever idea but I wouldn't pay extra for one.

We generally have an inside cabin as it means that we can cruise much more often and to more exotic destinations. We do occasionally opt for a balcony if it is somewhere exceptional where we would spend a large amount of time on it. We had an aft balcony for our cruises to Alaska, the Norwegian fjords and the one round the southern tip of South America because we knew the views would be spectacular and we can get a 180* view with very little wind either. We have an aft balcony booked for our Antarctica cruise in January but am betting that Celebrity will cancel that one as well.... booooooo.

Maybe I am just lucky but I don't get claustrophobic and we normally spend very little time in the cabin anyway.

Isabel

PS. I'm hoping that Damian is thinking about the next thread as we are getting close to the end of this one hahaha!

My last Vs....

Vancouver

and Victoria, Vancouver Island

Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem.