I'm In Cuba, But Oddly Enough, It Feels A Bit Like Being On An American Base.

Hi! That's me there, in Cuba! There isn't much to look at here at GITMO, but here's what I have so far. This was my first photo op after landing, as I waited for the ferry to take me over to the main side of the base. 

I have an interesting tale about my flight to GITMO actually, but I want to wait until I can get the pictures off of my phone, which I won't be able to do until I get home. Well ok it's not that interesting; I flew in a really really small plane and got to sit in the co-pilot seat, therefore getting a spectacular night view of the super long bright fence around the base. No photos of that though, unfortunately. Phone cameras are limited. But here's a shot of downtown GITMO, with a McDonald's and a church and everything.

Well I told you there wasn't a whole lot that was picture-worthy around here. I will try harder in the next week or so, promise. Here's a picture of the bay though. In case you wanted to know what it looked like.

And here's a Coast Guard ship, in the Bay. Two for one! 

There are a whole bunch of Iguanas running around here. I saw two of them today alone. This guy was just hanging out in the back yard of my hotel.

And thank you telephoto lens.

Interesting fact: Here at GITMO, Iguanas have more rights than some humans. Iguanas are an endangered species, and under American law, anyone caught harming one can be charged, fined, imprisoned, yadda yadda. A base-wide speed limit of 25 mph is strictly enforced for this reason. But you know, there are those people in that prison somewhere around here who are harmed all the time, so I hear. There are no American Laws or speed limits in the prison cells, sadly. An odd dichotomy.

Comments

[Miss Luongo]

Iguana puppy.

You look lonely in that picture. You want me to fly down for the end of the week?

[AnaVar]

As I can see from the photos, it's beautiful down there!

[messiestobjects]

You mean, Gitmo puppy! Yes, come on down please.

I'm confused, AnaVar. You look like spam for steroids, but your comments indicate that you actually read the blog. What the heck, are spambots becoming artificially intelligent?

[AnaVar]

Well if I have a site about medicines (my boyfriend is bodybuilder) doesn't mean I'm a spammer - I have to fight with them too! :) Working all day in front of computer gives you a lot of opportunities to check different themes and blogs. I'm thinking of visiting Cuba, so that's how I found your blog. My friend's husband is in navy too, maybe you've met! Wish you a nice day! Ana V.

[messiestobjects]

Whew, I'm glad you're not spam. Always nice to know someone is actually reading. Spam gets depressing. ;)

I'm not actually in the Navy, I just travel around a lot for work which is as a Computer exam proctor. We just ran a class down at Gitmo for some of their IT guys and I got to spend some time there. Check back in the next week or so and I'll have some more pictures and junk posted.

[AnaVar]

Great! Now I really have to bookmark your blog!