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From our condo on the 41st floor of a building on Brickell Key, a
small island in the financial district. We are about 1/2 mile from
the ships.

My 19 year old daughter is asleep and my really good digital and
lens are in there where Dad's dare not go until noon. smile

HF, you best apply the 6-P Principle he grin "Proper Planning
Prevents **** Poor Performance", quoted by CIA assasin played by Robert
Duvall in the movie "The Killer Elite".

As an adjunct to lenses, I popped for not one, but TWO new cameras
today! A Rebel Xsi for myself with the new 18-55mm kit lens to replace
my Rebel XT and an 8mp Canon SD-1100 ultra-compact P & S for my wife in
pink annodized "aluminum" plastic. She likes pink because she's a pig
memorabilia collector.

Now, gotta get off the couch and do some test drives prior to the June
5 WW@WD and June 7 CEMA HUGE Mopar car shows at Chrysler's Auburn
Hills, MI complex

The cruise shiop to the left is Freedom of the Seas (RCCL) the
largest cruise ship in service right now.

HF

On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:33:37 -0500, "HEMI - Powered"
wrote:

HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

The Spanish tall ship, Juan Sebastiain Elcano, a four-masted,
topsail schooner is in Miami for an R&R (liberty) and ceremonial
visit.

Note the provisions for square sails on the forward mast and
fore-n-aft sails on the other three.

They have rigged a canvas cover for the main and quarterdecks and
have had receptions on board each night. It is rumored that the
King of Spain (or maybe his son) was here one night.

Miami has a huge Spanish presence. Even the Cuban population has
ties to Spain. Many of the families in the 1960-62 flight from
Castro's rise to power had only been in Cuba since they left Spain
to escape the Civil War of the late 1930. They consider
themselves more Spanish than Cuban.

The pics are not as sharp as I'd like due to fires in the
Everglades which are sending smoke over the city. And, my
daughter has "borrowed" my best camera. I'll try again this
afternoon with it.

HiFlyer, where were you taking these pics? By the angle and distance
and smoggy and greenish tint look, I'd guess inside a skyscraper or
maybe some tower. Also, I'd guess it annoyed you not to have a long
enough lens to nail those two great ships from whatever distance you
were. I'd guesstimate maybe a mile or more.

I imagine you've been to the Castillo de San Marcos in St.
Augustine. I've never been a lover of Miami, but I sure do love the
Castillo! Now, if I ever get off my dead ass and buy a dedicated
slide scanner, maybe I can recover some of my thousands of 35mm
slides into digital!




--
HP, aka Jerry

"If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck"