Marine Iguana

La Loberia

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June 16th 2006
After two days of lectures and sunbathing on the beach we took another field trip. Today we went to La Loberia. La Loberia is a nesting colony of sea lions. We went during low tide and collected any kind of sea creatures we could catch which was mostly mollusks despite trying to catch a crab. There were lots of sea lions that we could get really close to. Sadly one of the sea lions had a fisherman ... read more

South America » Ecuador » Galápagos

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more