The last two days of Galápagos gallop by

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April 13th 2008

Published: April 20th 2008

Cerro Dragon and Sombrero Chino Thursday, March 27, featured an excursion to "Dragon Hill," on the northwestern coast of Santa Cruz Island. This area gets its name because it is has historically been the home of the dragon-like Galápagos land iguanas (endemic, of course). The walk was over rocky and rugged terrain in places, but there was a lot to see, especially the iguanas. The rest of the mor... Read Full Entry

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Valerie Hoffman

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I am an Education Volunteer at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. Before this, I taught in Long Beach high schools for 32 years. Now my husband and I are both retired and are spending as much time as we can traveling to witness the variety of countries and cultures on this planet. In the last ten years we have visited many diverse places: Egypt, China, the Baltic countries, Russia, Argentina, Antarctica, Mexico. This is the first time I have ever thought about blogging. Usually everything gets recorded in a trip diary, and good luck if I can find it again when we are sortin... full info

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Barnacles in strange places

Austin finds a plastic bottle with living barnacles attached

Ghost crab

Now you see him and soon you don't----in the hole!

It's a crab party!

The cove is teeming with Sally lightfoot crabs

A second Bartolomé beach

A short walk across the sand dune leads to a second lovely beach.

Snorkeling at cliff of Bartolomé

Lots of different fish----love those yellow-tailed surgeon fish

Mexican hogfish

They have striking colors, hump head, and streamers on tail

Amazing green fish

At first I wondered, fish or 7-up bottle?

Chocolate chip, anyone?

A beautiful chocolate chip seastar

Parrot fish

The magical colors of the underwater world never cease to amaze me

Another hogfish

Humphead hogfish and wrasse friends

Parrotfish and friend

Look at those teeth!

Nibbling at the rocks

These two fish work as a team

Just playing

Sea lion cavorts with us

Elusive blue wrasse

Beautiful!

Blue-gray triggerfish

We didn't see many of these

Stunning blue parrotfish

This one is the prettiest blue I have seen

Bob's fin and fish

Almost invisible fish scurry to get what Bob's fin stirred up

Group picture of Aquarium crew

Bruce and Kathy Cook, Dirk and Betsy Burcham, Logan Young, Wolf and Karen Berger, Val and Bob Hoffman

Santiago---last snorkeling

Little striped fish-----could they be anchovies? Or maybe zebra fish?

Val and friend

Sea lion is sooooo close!

Little fish, big fish, and urchins

Camouflage fish and pencil urchins

20th April 2008

lisa
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fascinating
Hi there, it all looks to be so beautiful and certainly makes one want to be there to adventure along side these marvelous creatures, the water looks to be so inviting.

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