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 […]
Travel
Travel photos (anything outside of home area of Tampa, St Petersburg)
Jamaica Wildlife
During our long weekend in Jamaica I got to photograph several species that I have not seen before. Several new species of bird to me were White-tailed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, Bananaquit, and a Loggerhead Kingbird. I photographed a new species of lizard for me, a Graham’s Anole which are pretty […]
Dry Tortugas Wildlife
We saw a good variety of wildlife at Dry Tortugas National Park, both above and below the water. My favorite was a resident Green Sea Turtle that has been hanging out inside the moat wall for the last couple months. We spent a good amount of time watching the turtle […]
Dry Tortugas Scenery
We have just returned from Dry Tortugas National Park, one of my favorite places in the world. This was my third trip and 2nd time taking my family. We camped for 2 nights on the island. We did a ton of swimming and snorkeling and some exploring and relaxing. It […]
Key Deer and Robbie’s Marina
We didn’t make to many side trips on our visit to Dry Tortugas National Park, but we did stop to see some Key Deer on the way down and at Robbie’s Marina on the way back to feed the Tarpon. Two can’t miss Keys experiences in my book. On the […]
Minnesota Wildlife
This blog post is just a compilation of other animals and birds I photographed on our Minnesota trip. Many were taken in my parents backyard. The other main wildlife I photographed was a lot of Black Bears which I posted about here.
Bear Sanctuary
Another new location we visited this year on our trip to Minnesota was Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary in Orr, Minnesota. This park is in the very northern part of Minnesota close to Voyageurs National Park. I have some conflicted feelings about this place which I will describe. All of the […]
Gooseberry Falls and Split Rock Lighthouse
On our anniversary trip to Duluth, Minnesota we took a drive along lake Superior and visited two pretty cool places, Gooseberry Falls and Split Rock Lighthouse. Gooseberry Falls was the first stop. The water level was pretty low but we still stopped at multiple levels of the falls and wandered […]
Cotton Mansion
Duluth, Minnesota was not where I ever would have expected to be spending my 19th wedding anniversary, but it worked out pretty well. We were up visiting my parents at Dead Lake in northern Minnesota for two weeks as a family this summer and my wife and I snuck away […]
Tampa is Super Bowl LV Ready
Took a walk around downtown Tampa this morning to capture some of the decorations for Super Bowl LV which will happen in Tampa next weekend. The Jose Gasparilla pirate ship is decorated nicely with NFL flags from all the teams. There are banners all over with the biggest being on […]