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Swimming and submarines.

Sea Level sign near the Dead Sea, Israel, Splendour of the Seas

Dead Sea

Submarine pens and tunnels, Balaclava, 

Submarine, Swedish Archipelago

Shuffleboard on Discovery 2

and Scrabble on Splendour

Sand boarding, Dubai

Surfing in Honolulu

Silk and Souks....

Silk production, Shanghai, 

Silk factory, helping to make a silk duvet by stretching single cocoons to make the layers. The silk duvet was one of the best things I have ever bought.

Gold Souk, Dubai 

Spice Souk, Agadir, Morocco. Fred Olsen, Balmoral

Muscat

Shopping and signs..

Boudicca...Spelling mistake I hope...

Sign collection display. Darling Harbour, Australia

Singapore supermarket, Celebrity Constellation

Cartagena, Colombia

Mauritius

Vietnamese speciality!

Trinidad

Sweets in Busan, S. Korea

Sea lions, Puerto Madryn, Argentina

Swimming with Stingrays and Black Fin Sharks, Bora Bora

Red squirrel, Cartagena, Colombia

Sun bear, Laos

Sloths..

Costa Rica

Amazon

Wow and wow again....stunning pictures for S....

here are mine

Orange-Breasted Sunbird South Africa

Black-Necked Stork Australia.

Greater Blue-Eared Starling Botswana.

Painted Stork India.

 Southern Double-Collared Sunbird South Africa.

Scarlet-Chested Sunbird Zanzibar.

Black Swan, Swan River, Perth, Australia, Sun Princess

Rough Seas....

Australia

in the Med, Splendour of the Seas.

 South Atlantic

Robben Island, Cape Town

Raffles Hotel, Singapore, on New Year's Eve

Roatan, Honduras...scary sign

Russian Matryoshka dolls, Korsakov, Russia.

seen in a Norwegian Supermarket. Thank goodness it is just red cabbage and not packeted road kill!!

Rice barges on the Kerela backwaters, India. Costa NeoRomantica

Rice paddy fields, Bali

Red earth, Broome, Australia.

Rock Strata...

St John's, Canada.

Mauritius

Rio, Christ the Redeemer

Reclining Buddhas...

Wat Hanchey, Cambodia.

Yangon, Myanmar

Religious ceremony, Bali, 

Roots at Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Mekong River cruise

Doing a rumba in the Temple of Heaven gardens, Beijing

All about rum...

Rum Punch, Barbados, Caribbean, Adonia

Rum Punch, St. Kitts, Caribbean, Adonia

Rum tasting,

I just love the British sense of humour and irony...

Another lot of Rs....

River rafting on the Martha Brae, Jamaica

Rafting on the Yangtze River, China

Rickshaw rides...

Ambon, Indonesia

Shanghai

Railways...

Railway Station, Mumbai India, Costa NeoRomantica.

Rauma Railway, Andalsnes, Norway

World's steepest railway track, Blue Mountains, Australia.

The upside of rain though is that we saw some wonderful rainbows

off the coast of Brisbane, Australia

Colon, Panama

Ice rainbow, Uruguay

Rainbows over Iguazu Falls, Argentina

Rainbows, Fremantle, Australia

Rainbow, Inside Passage, Alaska

R is for Rain. Friends and relatives refuse to holiday with us because they say that we attract bad weather but don' believe them!

Amazon River 

Celebrity Constellation

Great Wall of China

Whitsunday Isalnds, Australia

Hanoi

Hoi An, Vietnam

Hong Kong

Mauritius

Port Douglas, Australia

Busan, South Korea

Mayreau, Caribbean, Adonia

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

Sri Lanka, Celebrity Constellation

So many Rs. Thank you for posting the Rocky Mountaineer, Nile, Rhodes etc as they bring back happy memories. I'll try to do some different ones starting as usual with the birds.....

 Roseate Spoonbill, Costa Rica

Indian Roller, UAE on a colour co-ordinated post!

Lilac-Breasted Roller South Africa.

American Redstart, Cuba 

Durian Redstart hitching a lift on Celebrity Millennium as we crossed the East China Sea.

Oriental Robin, Hong Kong 

Rainbow Lorikeet, Australia, Sun Princess

Red legged thrush, Cuba

These are my last Qs...

Qatortoq, Greenland

Qoroq ice fjord

Qumran National Park, Israel, Splendour of the Seas

Queues

Mausoleum of Ho Chi Min, Hanoi

Buddhist monks collecting food offerings in Laos

Bamboo Bridge, Laos

Disembarking La Marguerite River cruise ship on the Mekong

Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

Quebec

Quad Biking in Egypt, Thomson Spirit, in our younger days!!

Queensland Coast, Australia

Winning Progressive Quiz team, Radiance of the Seas, Australia and New Zealand cruise.

Q has been 'quite' a challenge but, once again, the posters have been very creative. 

I'll start my contribution with pictures of Quokkas. These cute little creatures are sometimes called Scrub Wallabies because they hop around but they are not related. Quokkas are only found on Rottnest Island which is situated off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. We took the ferry across and had a wonderful day there and were very lucky to see some Quokkas because they are generally nocturnal animals.

Rottnest Island

This is the only bird we could find, It is a California Quail and was seen in Seattle

This was our first experience of sailing in pirate waters off the coast of Africa. We were on Costa NeoRomantica and the ship's protection was to position clothes mannequins dressed as soldiers and holding fire hoses at strategic places around the ship..

Things were a bit better organised a few years later when we had armed mercenaries on board and protective barbed wire around the decks....

Security boarding Splendour of the Seas before sailing through the pirate waters around the Horn of Africa

Boudicca

Prison in Fremantle, Australia

Sugar plantation, Pointe-A-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Caribbean. Adonia

Pike Place Market, Seattle

Was Jamie Oliver here? Philippines

and if he was, did he cook this delicacy LOL!

it is a Vietnamese speciality

You are absolutely right about these 2 threads. It is so nice to see positive things about our beautiful world as there is so much negativity at the moment. It has been a real incentive for me to sort out our multitude of photographs and not only has it brought back many happy memories but it has also given me a list of other places to visit if, and when, we eventually get back to travelling so thank you Damian and everyone else who has posted.

I still have a few more Ps...

Perth Australia - I hope the first one doesn't offend anyone. I assume the word means something else in Australia!

A few more from Petra. This was one of my favourite excursions. I was amazed at how big the site was and how much more there is to the ancient city but that first view of the Treasury after the long walk down the gorge must rank as one of my top 5 experiences.

Piranha fishing, Amazon River

Plastic carrier bags used for Christmas decorations, Santarem, Amazon River. Such ingenuity when money is tight! 

Peak tram, Hong Kong

Eva Peron's grave, Buenos Aires

Perhention Islands, South China Sea

Phuket, Celebrity Constellation

Patong, Phuket

I was surprised by how pretty Pals village near Palamos, Costa Brava, was....

Padua, Italy

Panjim market, Goa, Celebrity Constellation

Pearl shopping Moorea, French Polynesia

Our tour bus in Dublin

A floating petrol station, Manaus, Amazon River

Pizza heaven on Marella Discovery 2

Potter at work in New Mangalore, Celebrity Constellation

Largest seed in the world from the Coco-de-Mer palm tree. Seychelles. Costa NeoRomantica

more P creatures...

Burrowing parrot, Puerto Madryn, Argentina

 Arctic Peregrin Falcon. Miami

Spot-Billed Pelican Sri Lanka.

Pink Galah, Australia, 

Painted Bunting, Miami

Puffin, Iceland

Puffins, St. John's, Canada

Pink dolphins, Amazon River

Polar Bear, Tromso, Norway