Travels – Page 25 – Sequim Daily Photo

Galapagos female Flightless Cormorant

The female’s eyes are round and oh so beautiful!

Cormorants in the Galapagos have evolved to be flightless and do all their hunting underwater by swimming. They can no longer fly at all.

Galapagos Dolphins

So we got a shipwide wakeup call at 4:25am. The captain had spotted over a 1000 dolphin pod a mile away. It was the most miraculous thing I saw the whole trip. Thousands of dolphins in a long line in front of our boat all jumping 15ft in the air!

Unfortunately because of the humidity each morning I usually took my camera outside on deck for 45 minute or more so that it wouldn’t fog up. Needless to say I was fast asleep when the all on deck call occurred. I grabbed my camera and went upstairs only to be very frustrated along with every other photographer that my lens would not unfog. So these are taken about 25 minutes later when they were all jumped out, and very scattered in small pods again. But the light was very beautiful.

Galapagos–Father’s Day

This daddy Blue Footed Boobie was rolling over the eggs in the nest (yes it really is very shallow–and was on a slope to boot!)

Galapagos-Blue Footed Boobie

This female was hanging out on the tiny ledge. Males have tiny iris and females big round ones.

Galapagos-Marine Iguanas

The terrain was all black lava rock/flows. We didn’t even see marine iguanas they blended in so well until we were almost stepping on them. They wouldn’t even move. Look at the mountain of lizards. They iguanas hold their breath, go under water and feed on the vegetation on corals. When they come up they “sneeze” out the salt they ingested.