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