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Day 6 started with a panga ride along Post Office Bay. We saw Sea Lions, Reddish Marine Iguanas, and Blue-footed Boobies. We then stopped at the Post Office barrel to leave a few postcards and some people took ones We then did a snorkel from the beach and Emery made […]
Day 5 began with the requisite visit to the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island. After seeing all of the tortoieses including some babies, we had some time to shop in the town of Puerto Ayoro. We got a few souvenirs and then had lunch at the Finch […]
Day 4 began at the beautiful red beach of Rabida Island. As we pulled up there was an older “baby” Galapagos Sea Lion nursing on the beach nearby. Between the red beach, the sea lion and our ship in the background, it was a really amazing scene. We then came […]
On Day 3 we returned to Isabela Island, but this time to Urbina Bay. We landed on a black sand beach with turtle tracks. Here we saw our first Galapagos Tortoises (although the first one wasn’t so giant) and found a few more Land Iguanas. We then snorkeled from the […]
Day 2 started with a visit to Isabela Island. Our first activity was coastal exploration by pangaof an area called Punta Vicente Roca. We saw a lot of Galapagos Fur Seals, a few Galapagos Sea Lions, Marine Iguanas, Flightless Cormorants, Green Sea Turtles, Nazca (Masked) Boobies and Sally Lightfoot Crabs. […]
We arrived in the Galapagos Islands around midday. Before leaving the airport we had already seen a bunch of Lava Lizards and a finch. We took a short bus ride to the port. Before even getting to our boat we saw a Land Iguana, Marine Iguana, Galapagos Sea Lion, Blue-footed […]
On our trip to the Galapagos Islands we spent 2 nights and a day in Quito at the beginning of our trip. We stayed at a beautiful hotel in the center of the city called the Hotel Patio Andaluz. During our day in Quito we took a guided tour. We […]
Myself and a group of friends went out shooting the Milky Way again on Saturday night (Really Sunday morning I guess 12:30-3:30ish). This time we stayed closed to home and shot from Pass-a-Grille Beach. It is weird shooting it from there as it is so much lighter than places you […]
Today we did a Cystic Fibrosis benefit walk that happened at ZooTampa. It was nice as we just got to walk through ZooTampa and go wherever we wanted. It was also overcast this morning so it wasn’t too hot. We made a loop around the whole zoo but the best […]
I was able to photograph Sunday night’s full lunar eclipse from my backyard last night. Luckily the weather was good and there were no clouds. The eclipse started around 10:30 and the moon was fully eclipsed by 11:30. I then composited all of the photos into the final finished photo […]