Showing posts with label Ecuador 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ecuador 2011. Show all posts

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Galapagos Penguin Family Pictures


So, you know how in families with small (or larger) children, it's impossible everyone to pose and smile at the same time?  There's always one pulling a face or goofing off?  The same rule applies to Galapagos Penguins.


This being said, that third penguin is my favorite.  Just look at his/her antics!







Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I'm back


So we made it back at 9:00 or so last night.  The trip was incredible.  If you ever get a chance to go to the Galapagos Islands, sell your first born, mortage your house and go!  No really, we had a great time both on the Ecuador Mainland and the Galapagos Islands.  Here's the first picture from the trip I put on Facebook.  This is a marine Iguana--these guys are the only oceangoing lizards who eat algae off rocks in the pacific.  They blow the salt water out of nostrils on their head, but I didn't get a picture of that.  This was a big one-he was probably 2.5 feet from head to tail (they have long tails).  I took the picture just outside the Charles Darwin Research Center.

Oh and as an aside, we made many, many booby jokes.  Really, how could we not?

Marine Iguana Galapagos 2011