
What an auspicious start to our 2020 Galápagos journey! A stunning sunset on Isabela island, our home for the next 5 nights 🌅
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Some underwater scenes from our excursion to “The Tunnels” yesterday!
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White-tipped reef sharks resting in a channel
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A porcupine puffer fish greeting the day with a smile
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Yellowtail surgeon fish and black striped salema fish
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Leopard eel!
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Ready for underwater adventure!
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Snorkeling through tiny channels filled with beautiful blue zoanthids, turtles, and..sharks!
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Zoanthids lined the channel walls and floor
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Spotted eagle ray
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White-topped reef shark
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Blue seastar
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Sea cucumber
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Admiring his own feet 🤣
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Posing with Kicker Rock in the background
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👀 😂
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Newly minted—check out his belly button!
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A marine iguana enjoys the sunset
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😍
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More from our excursion to Los Tuneles!
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A lone sea lion sits atop Union Rock
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Union Rocks sits 2 miles from shore and is typically home to a bachelor colony of sea lions
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Some of our Galapagos gang!
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Heading into the waters at Finado
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More from our excursion to Los Tuneles!
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More from our excursion to Los Tuneles!
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More from our excursion to Los Tuneles!
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Some of our illustrious Galápagos crew this year!
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Blue-footed boobies (see the second one?!) and Kicker Rock in the distance
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Des is our fearless “co-pilot”! These are the flights we charter between islands to avoid hours and hours in a tiny boat between islands
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Luckily our pilot closed it before take off 😂
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Bye, Isabela island, we ❤️ you!
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A bit of convenience store humor on San Cristobal island
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Sleeping on the job, eh?!
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Sweet penguin! 🐧
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😴😴😴
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Sally Lightfoot crab
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Ranjan making memories with his Olympus
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Not the best look on a pelican 😂
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Our welcoming committee after our Tintoreras excursion
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😍
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🐧🐧🐧🐧
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Domestic Galápagos wildlife!
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Peekaboo!
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Booby and penguin!
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The internet wasn’t cooperating on Isabel, so I apologize for any repeats but I want to make sure you see all the awesomeness! 😂
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The internet wasn’t cooperating on Isabel, so I apologize for any repeats but I want to make sure you see all the awesomeness! 😂
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The internet wasn’t cooperating on Isabel, so I apologize for any repeats but I want to make sure you see all the awesomeness! 😂
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At the tunnels
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Catching a sea turtle swimming under the tunnels!
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Blue-footed Booby
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Galápagos penguin!
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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When the bottom of your flip flop is a bottle opener! 😂
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A brown pelican trying out a new pose 😂
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Sea lion, marine iguana, and Sally Lightfoot
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Sally Lightfoot crab
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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Crowded pier!
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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😴😴😴
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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Galápagos penguins
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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White-topped reef shark & marine iguana
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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A marine iguana swimming—from the bottom!
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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Boobies and pelicans
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An exciting first day out at the Tintoreras!
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😁📸
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Colorful marine iguana
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Domesticated Isabela wildlife 😆
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Another lovely sunset!
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Hammerheads galore during our snorkeling time at Kicker Rock—we saw around 6!
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A sea lion family took an afternoon “stroll” out to Kicker Rock, 4 miles offshore!
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A Booby about to dive
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Kicker Rock in the distance
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The wall of Kicker Rock
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Papa scopes out the GoPro 👁
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A young sea lion swinging by for a better look 👀
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