Bermuda pics!
Hey everyone! Well, it’s been over one month since my family cruise to Bermuda, but I’ve finally got around to uploading my pictures. Between my camera and my parent’s cameras, we took over 800 photos! I’ll spare you the agony (and spare the scripts.mit.edu webserver the space) and only show you some of my favorite pictures.
Here are the pictures!
Leaving the port of Boston. Can almost see MIT… if it weren’t for those tall buildings!
Inside the ship, in one of the main dining rooms. Our ship is the “Norwegian Spirit”
On nom nom nom nom…
Circling around Bermuda as we arrive on Sunday morning
Elbow beach – nice and sunny!
Small cars and mopeds were everywhere on the island. Awesome!
The view of the Dockyard from the ship
A beautiful sunset, also from the ship
Check out those sunset-colored crepuscular rays!
A long exposure view of the town by the dockyard, at dusk. One of my favorite pics
A glass bottom boat! These things are pretty awesome. We went on one, and some of the pics are below. The bottom of the boat is made of glass, allowing passengers to look underneath and see coral reefs, fish, and ship wrecks. Floodlights mounted on the underside also allow for a great view at night. These boats are designed to operate in very shallow waters (the boat doesn’t penetrate very deep vertically down into the water), so it can go over coral reefs. Quality engineering!
Getting onto the glass bottom boat, right before dusk.
As the captain put it, “Welcome aboard, everyone! Part of our journey tonight will take us within the Bermuda triangle. Inexplicable anomalies have happened here as recently as several years ago. We’ll be sailing in dangerously shallow waters, where other boats have been destroyed. Also, it’s night time. Also, the bottom of this boat is made of glass, not steel. Sounds like a great idea, no?” 
Another great sunset, this time from aboard the glass bottom boat
Looking through the glass! Check out some of that coral. The big black square is a floodlight.
Another glass-bottom boat; they all tend to circulate around the same area. In this case, we’re all checking out an old ship wreck called the Vixen.
We survived!
A lot of houses in Bermuda are painted pastel colors
The town of Georgetown, which has a reputation of being very colonial
British people are so stylish!
When we returned to our stateroom, we were greeted by a friendly towel monkey!
The grand centrum area on the cruise ship. Nice grand piano back there!
The bridge! Lots of cool measurement and navigation equipment in there. At one point, there was a rather extreme fog storm. You couldn’t see out those huge glass windows at all; it was completely white that day! Perhaps it was a storm from the Bermuda triangle, coming to eat us…
A clock in our room. Here’s a fun little science experiment! This is a clock we took with us from home, where it kept perfect time. We noticed however that when plugged in aboard the ship, the clock would consistently gain a few minutes of time each day. Strange, huh? Nope, we weren’t even traveling at relativistic speeds either. An explanation for this is that old digital clocks operate by counting the peaks in AC current, which is supposed to be standardized at 60 Hz. So every 60 cycles, the clock adds one second to the current time; every 3600 cycles the clock adds one minute, etc. Since our clock was gaining time however, that means that ship’s electrical generators systems aren’t operating at exactly 60 Hz; it’s a little bit higher! I measured how far off the clock went (using my watch, which is hopefully accurate), and measured that the ship’s AC runs at 60.148 +/- 0.003 Hz ftw. A bit too fast!
More on nom nom later on that night. There was plenty of this going on throughout the cruise I might add; I just refrained from taking pictures of absolutely everything I ate 
A long exposure of the sea, taken at night
The ship’s main deck, on the last day before coming back to Boston.
Overall it was a great trip! We had a fun time, and luckily we didn’t even die in the Bermuda triangle. Cheers!