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Featherdale Wildlife Park
Source: Featherdale Wildlife Park We recently came back from a trip to Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia and Hawaii. I plan to start blogging about the trip soon. For now, wanted to share our picture at Featherdale Wildlife Park outside of Sydney where we had our picture taken with a sleeping Koala Bear. Australia was […]
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Salt Point State Park, California
Salt Point State Park and nearby areas In late November we were back at one of our favorite places, the north coast of California.We drive thru Petaluma, CA and out to the coast on the Bodega Bay Highway until we connected with Highway 1. After going north, we reached a beautiful spot where the Russian […]
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US National Parks blog to visit
If you haven’t already found this blog, please take a minute to look at the beautiful photos and information about United States National Parks. The photos are exquisite and the writing about the visits is wonderful. I highly recommend following it so you get their updates. For now, here is a link to all the […]
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Galapagos – 20, Goodbye to the Galapagos
Enjoy the magnificence of the Galapagos Islands! These beautiful photos are from our amazing naturalist, Andrés Moreano. He did an absolutely wonderful job leading our tours on all the islands, helping everyone with photo ideas and always trying to help our group see everything possible on our trip. We enjoyed Peru and the Galapagos Islands […]
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Galapagos – 19, More Tortoises!
Not ready to leave the Anahi, I do believe we should have taken the 15 day trip! Up early and we bring our airport bags down to the main deck. The crew takes the bags and leaves us with just our backpacks for the days adventure. We take our last trip in the panga to […]
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Galapagos – 18, April 28, 2016, Amazing Floreana Island and Post Office Bay
Today is our last island and snorkeling day! Have to make the most of it. Also, this is our last day with Andres as our guide which is sad. He has been amazing. Floreana is one of the southernmost islands of the Galapagos. Temperature most days has been between 30 to 31 C (85 to […]
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Galapagos – 16, Great Frigate Birds
Enjoy these pictures of Great Frigate Birds, it was mating season and they seemed to be on all the islands. The males have the red pouch under their throat which they inflate to attract female birds whenever the females fly over the males. Sometimes the females are impressed and land next to the male birds […]
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Galapagos – 17 – Wed, April 16, 2016, Española Island
We went to Española island in the morning, also known as Hood Island. This volcanic island was formed from one volcano. We had a dry landing and walked the island to see Marine Iguanas, just one pair of nesting blue footed boobies, but many other blue footed boobies moving about, lava lizards, mocking birds and […]
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Galapagos – 15, Tortoises on San Cristobal Island
Day 13, Tuesday, April 26, 2016 San Cristobal Island land tours Another early breakfast then back on the panga (rubber boats like Zodiacs used to get to/from the ship) to town of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristobal Island. We went by bus for approximately 45 min to Galapaguera de Cerro Colorado or Cerro Colorado Galapagos […]
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Galapagos – 14
Monday, April 25, 2016, Pitt Point, Kicker Rock, San Cristobal Island, Lobos Island Early breakfast at 6:30am so that we could hike the San Cristobal island trail from 7:15 to 9:30 at Pitt point or Punta Pitt. We had a wet beach landing and shoe change. Then up the beach passing sea lions to take […]