True short stories and photos from a part time adventurer
Our time in the Amazon was an amazing, humid, sweaty sweaty uncomfortable, once in a lifetime experience. I felt like Teddy Roosevelt in The River of Doubt but without the life threatening infection. Fortunately I had that vaccine taken care of so I was not concerned about yellow fever. Also the extra strength, probably skin …
There could not have been more of a difference between our trip in the Galapagos and our trip in the Amazon... In between we made a stop in Lima to visit Alonso (our roommate/landlord before he moved to Peru for a year) and had WAY more adventure than expected. Our full day there we encountered …
It's finally time, the last of the Galapagos posts. Then we just have one in the Peruvian jungle and it's on to the road trip! It's almost impressive that I'm spending so much time on my trips from last summer that I won't be finished by the time this summer rolls around. Side eye lava …
Punta Suarez was overwhelming. We were there to see waved albatross but there was so much more.... Apparently after snacking on the eggs some lizards move into the nests. The first waved albatross we saw was sitting on a nest, but the next pair was doing their mating dance. They mate for life and have …
I thought the beach before this was full of sea lions, but Espanola was next level. Not only full of sea lions but the sand was perfectly white, it was like having a sea lion photography studio! The best part was we had all afternoon to hang out at the beach, but everyone except me …
Back to the Galapagos! I'll try to move faster through these so we can get back to more of the hiking and camping, I just have all these crazy photos I want to share and it's hard to cut them down, so we'll focus more on just the photos. At Punta Pitt we went for …
I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled program of me trying to get through all my trips from last summer before the next summer travel season starts because over the long weekend we took Stella on her first camping trip! This is one of the moments that I am so glad I live in Texas, because we …
Sullivan Bay on Santiago had one major attraction...Galapagos Penguins. We took a zodiac around the bay and observed the odd rock formations, formed, as with most odd formations in the Galapagos, by the eruption, cooling and breakdown of volcanos and volcanic rocks. We were hoping to maybe see one penguin, but as with all expectations …
North Seymour Island was the next stop on the Galapagos cruise, and we did another nature walk. I believe this one was supposed to be strenuous due to the rocks? After Genovesa, North Seymour's soil (and therefore volcanic makeup) was strikingly different and highlighted how the animals on each individual island could evolve so easily …
In Darwin Bay we had our first snorkeling adventure in the Galapagos. If I'm being totally honest it did not go well. I mean it was awesome, but also I got super super seasick. The water was pretty rough, it was right after our first night sleeping on the boat and the water was incredibly …
