During our trip to Dallas for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse we stayed in Plano, Texas. We visited 2 parks while there, Arbor Hills Nature Park and the Heard Museum. Both were nice. Arbor Hills was a huge park and although crowded we were able to mostly get away from […]
Travel
Travel photos (anything outside of home area of Tampa, St Petersburg)
Oahu, Hawaii
Back from a 2 week trip to Hawaii. It is definitely a special place with so much to see and do despite its small size. We spent the fist 3 1/2 days on Oahu. My big mistake was staying in downtown Honolulu. It was nice being able to see Diamond […]
Smoky Mountains Wildlife
Smoky Mountains
Just returned from a family trip where my family and my sisters family met up in the Smoky Mountains. We stayed at a beautiful mountainside cabin where we saw bears almost every day. We did a lot of the touristy stuff and less of the park stuff this trip but […]
Galapagos Islands Day 6
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 […]
Galapagos Islands Day 5
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 […]
Galapagos Islands Day 4
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 […]
Galapagos Islands Day 3
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 […]
Galapagos Islands Day 2
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. […]
Galapagos Islands Day 1
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 […]