Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:56 pm
My wife and I have been touring Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands for the last few weeks. Simply amazing!!! I cannot describe how much we enjoyed this trip. We traveled through the Islands by boat, visiting pretty much an Island a day - and each island had something new to show us. I have put together a small sampling of some photos, many not even close the best I got, but being I have literally thousands of photos, it'll be some time before I find the best and collect them into a presentable form.
Here is a link to a page with 12 photos:
Galapagos
This selection of photos doesn't even come CLOSE to the diversity of wildlife we saw on these island, much of which is endemic: given time constraints I didn't include many of the photos of the species of sea turtles, herons, finches, mockingbirds, all sorts of sea birds, lizards, insects...
Each of these photos has a story to tell, but for brevity's sake I'll spare the details of every photo. I've embedded here some of the better one's:
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Sunrise in our 'Panga' on the final day of our tour. Literally on cue, as soon as the sun starting showing itself, all the birds around started feeding and diving.
Speeking of feeding, this sea lion put on a remarkable show - trying to kill and eat this small shark. I've got about 100 photos of this happening right before our eyes. This is just one of the many.
And of course, what is a trip to the Galapagos without a picture of an Iguana. This is a Marine Iguanas that swims out into the ocean to feed.
This is the 'famous' view from the top of Bartolome Island. In the bay on the left, we stood on the beach and watched an innumerable number of sharks swim a few feet from shore.
Here is a link to a page with 12 photos:
Galapagos
This selection of photos doesn't even come CLOSE to the diversity of wildlife we saw on these island, much of which is endemic: given time constraints I didn't include many of the photos of the species of sea turtles, herons, finches, mockingbirds, all sorts of sea birds, lizards, insects...
Each of these photos has a story to tell, but for brevity's sake I'll spare the details of every photo. I've embedded here some of the better one's:
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Sunrise in our 'Panga' on the final day of our tour. Literally on cue, as soon as the sun starting showing itself, all the birds around started feeding and diving.
Speeking of feeding, this sea lion put on a remarkable show - trying to kill and eat this small shark. I've got about 100 photos of this happening right before our eyes. This is just one of the many.
And of course, what is a trip to the Galapagos without a picture of an Iguana. This is a Marine Iguanas that swims out into the ocean to feed.
This is the 'famous' view from the top of Bartolome Island. In the bay on the left, we stood on the beach and watched an innumerable number of sharks swim a few feet from shore.
