The Tropics: February, Week 3

The next stop on the cruise was Roatan, an island of the coast of Honduras.  It rained for about 95% of the day.  We were lucky enough to be on the ziplines during the only non-rainy minutes of the day.  After arriving back at Mahogany Bay, I whipped out the big camera and started taking pictures.  One thing I love about the tropics is the amazing variety of flowers that I obviously don't get to see at home.  So here's one of the shots I captured on that rainy day on Roatan.

"Raindrops on Ginger"
Canon SX40 HS
f/4
1/320
ISO400
1/24/2013
Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Honduras

Get it? Raindrops on ginger?  Like "Raindrops on roses"?  Yep, the flowers were definitely one of my favorite things about Roatan.  The rain, eh, I could do without, although it really did make for some cool pictures of the flowers.

I did a little research and found that this flower is Alpinia Zerumbet, more commonly known as the shell ginger.  I overheard a lady saying that it is a type of ginger, otherwise I never would have figured it out.  I think it's much prettier before it blooms, but that's just me.  What do you think?