Additional photos from Galapagos

Diving Videos

Here are some videos that my dive guide took while I was in Galapagos.

Learning to Row in 2010

Norine took some lovely pictures of my novice rowing class in 2010. Thought I would post them here…

Quaker City Masters 2011

Here are a couple of photos from one of the three races we did last year….

Maria was behind me and Megan is in front of me.

Galapagos- Our Time on the Galaxy

We spent six days aboard the Galaxy, a 16 person yacht, Island hopping and snorkeling: Here are the highlights of our trip.

Thursday
Island: Santiago

This was our first time snorkeling. We saw parrot fish, sturgeons feedings, and this is where we saw the lava lizard eating the locust. On this day we heard our best piece of travel advice… “don’t trip over a sea lion”

Friday
Islands: Bartolome and Santa Cruz (Bachas Beach)
We saw two rays, sting ray and spotted eagle ray. Took a sunrise walk at Bartolome
Saw many penguins from the Panga hanging out on the rocks and being super cute.
While snorkeling a penguin swam right by my nose.
We saw a sea turtle resting on the bottom, our one and only Pink Flamingo, and the Common Stilt with the red legs. This is where I learned that Kristen loves leggy birds.
Saw LOTS of blue-footed boobies up close!

On this day, we got our ridiculous sun-burned asses because we weren’t wearing wet suits. Ouch.
At lunchtime, we saw a bunch of dolphins off the bow of the boat, swimming along with us and jumping out of the water.
I saw my first shark!
Lots of star fish, and the first sighting of the cool hyroglyph fish.
And possibly a baby shark…

Saturday
Islands: Seymour and Mosequera
We saw lots of boobies up close. Too many booby jokes. Saw the mating dance for the first time.
Pelicans, learned the different (sort of) between great and magnificent frigate birds, and saw the red balloons. Lots of posturing males. Iguanas and also a tiny snake!
Kristen was super excited to first see the Storm Petrels, and we saw many many sea lions. Also the bottle nosed skeleton on the beach walk. Plus dead things on the beach at Mosquera.
On Mosequera, Kristen spotted a pod of dolphins (no thanks to our guide). We hopped in the Pangas and went out to visit them. There must have been 30! They were eating, according to the panga driver. We hung with them for awhile.
Kristen saw a shark while snorkeling, also puffer fish and starfish.
We jumped off the top of the ship while the men equivocated. We were VERY proud of ourselved, even though my sunburned ass now had a bruise on it. Ben, Alan and Renee got shown up!
I tried snorkeling a la Julie. Hard on the ears, it turns out. Julie must have amazing equilizer ears.
Kristen and I took the flashlight to the bow at night to look for sharks. We saw a couple!

Sunday
Genovesa Island
Man was I seasick the night before. Took two dramamine and went to sleep, all fine. The overnight trip to Genovesa was many hours and rough water.
We climbed the cliff in the morning, even Mike. Bird-a-palooza! The sky was black with Frigate birds and Storm Petrels. Renee did a mating dance with one of the Boobies. Wish I had a picture of that.
Tons of red-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, and lots of nesting boobies and fuzzy babies.
We decided that Frigates are mafia style gangsters. It was like a bird storm.
We walked on the beach, and saw yellow crested night herons (Kristen pointed them out) and boobies. We did our first deep snorkel, Kristen saw a hammerhead, we saw two sea turtles, seargent major fish, angel fish but the visibility was kind of poor.

Monday
Islands: San Cristobal (Cerro Brujo) and Leon Dormido
Late morning: We went to Cerro Brujo and walked on the beach. Laid around mostly.

In the afternoon, another deep snorkel off the Panga. This one was AMAZING. We swam around Leon Dormido, saw many juvenile Salema, looking like bullets of mercury. More sea turtles than we could count, about 20 galapagos sharks and 20 spotted eagle rays RIGHT below us as we swam throught the passage at Leon Dormido. They swam back and forth beneath us.

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