Galapagos Island Images

Actually, these first few images are in Quito, Equador	Observatory in Quito	Observatory in Quito	Telescope in the observatory	Very old Seismograph
Slightly newer Seismograph	Susan and Church in Quito	Water-drip formations in lava tube	Exit from Lava tube	Lava Lizard
Trail to Tortuga Bay beach on Santa Cruz where several thousand people live	Susan on beach	Susan photographing a Marine Iguana	Susan and Marine Iguanas	Susan and more Marine Iguanas
Pelican and cactus.  Note that the cactus "bark" is red like Ponderosa Pine trees.	Lunch after our 6 Km Tortuga Bay Santa Cruz beach walk.	Susan having lunch with friends (It is illegal to have food on any of the islands with the exception of Santa Cruz and one or two others with permanent human populations.  It was ok here on Santa Cruz though...)	Howard having lunch with friends	And more friends around Tortuga Bay...
The volcano from approximately 5 miles away.	The volcano through Meade binocular camera	Flamingo on Floreana Island	Tortoises on Santa Cruz	Tortoise on Santa Cruz
Tortuga Bay walk on Santa Cruz	Tortuga Bay walk on Santa Cruz	Susan and tortoise on Santa Cruz	Tortoise and Vermillion Fly Catcher on Santa Cruz	Susan and tortoise
Tortoise	Tortoise that continued on her way after my movie of her.
Santa Cruz scenery	Susan and Sea Lions	And Sea Lion pup		Another Sea Lion pup.  They were SO cute!  Made you want to cuddle them but its not allowed so we did not...
Sea Lion	Marine Iguana "If ... I ... could ... just ... move ...this ... rock ... out ... of ... the ... way ...		Masked Boobies	Marine Iguana of the more colorful variety
"My feet are ... brown!  Could have sworn they were blue..."		Post Office Barrel on Floreana.Whaling ships used to leave mail here for pickup and delivery by other whaling ships.	Visitors now look through and deliver the mail if it is addressed to somewhere near their home...
Paul, our guide.	Whale bones	Flightless Cormorants	Cactus on lava	Entrance to a sea cave
Inside the sea cave looking out.	Cute!		Sally Lightfoot crab	How many steps?
Finally, the top	What are YOU looking at?		Red-footed Booby
More red feet			Susan and Frigate Bird chicks	If you are cold, put on a pom-pom
Susan's photograph of me and the tortoise that made me stop making my movie of it by approaching too close.	Susans photo of Great Blue Heron in downtown Puerto Ayore.			Male Frigate Bird trying to attract attention
Frigate Birds	Frigate Bird accepting a stick offering.	Susan, Sea Lions, and our yacht, the Integrity	Land Iguana that came walking up to Paul.  He said they don't usually do that...	Relaxin' on the trail.
	Great Blue Heron	Red-billed Tropicbirds	This Sea Lion had to duck under each wave and appeared to be irritated by the waves.
Frigate Birds - Proud papa to be?			Susan and other in Panga as seen from one of the islands	They usually don't watch this carefully...
Actually these are two males fighting.  Presumably one was passing through the other's territory.	You are lucky I let you by and yes, I do own the whole damn trail...	We have cactuses similar to these in Arizona but they do not have Sea Lions resting under them...	Plumb tuckered...	Can you see the reflection of the photographer (Susan) in my eye?
Swallow-tailed Gull	It's MY trail.  Who's next?	Susan, the crewman who helped her up and down the volcano and the Captain of the Integrity	Paul and Howard before we got on the bus to go to the plane that would take us home.

Galapagos Island Snorkel Images

		Pencil Urchins I believe within the crack in the rock.
			All the fish I was observing suddenly dived for a crack  in the sea bed.  I wondered why.  Then this sea lion appeared out of nowhere at  high speed to look at me.  Really startled me!	Sea lion swimming around me...
				Just hanging around.  Feet out of the water, head down.  Different perspective I guess... This is a "fur seal" I believe.
		Looking me over...

Galapagos Island Videos -  These are Videos, i.e., Movies!

Sierra Negra Volcano, after 28 years of dormancy, started erupting our first night on the yacht.  48 hours later, we climbed up the crater to see it.  Totally unexpected, wonderful experience.  I've always wanted to see a volcano in action.  According to my calculations, we were about 5 miles from the vents shown above.  (Crater 6 miles in diameter, we were about 1/4 of the way around the crater from the vents.)  (I changed the CODEC from IV50 to MJPG to match the others so it should play if the others play on your machine...	Flamingo
Galapagos Penguin	Victor and Vanquished - Land Iguanas
Sea Lions - Hill Climbing	King of the Hill - Baby Giant Tortoise Style (Watch him roll down the hill...  Ouch!)
Clunking down the steps and walking up to me... (So Then I Yielded...)	Mocking Bird Territorial Boundary Dispute (They totally ignored us...)
Sea Lion Pups Playing	More Pup Play
Albatross Mating Ritual (Watch the head movement when one walks to the right)	Frigate Birds Eating Something Near Sea Lions (Pup is worried...  Thinks he might be on the menu?)
"Darwin's Toilet"  Watch it Flush...	Young Blue-Footed Booby Playing with a "stick"
Another Blue-Footed Booby Chick (I like the way he looks when he walks...)	Followed by a Mocking Bird that Wants Me to Give it Water. (I didn't because we are not supposed to...)
Young Bird  Exercising Its Wings	Red-Footed Booby
Bull Sea Lion Blocked Our Path to the Boat (Clapping is supposed to convince it to move.  This time however, it charged Paul, our guide.  We all then joined in the clapping while providing moral support to Paul.  It finally moved away...)	Diving Booby