Around the world in easy days

Blog of Gavin and Rebecca as we travel around SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South America.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Sharking in Ecquador








OK, get your magnifying glass out for the shark and penguin pics, the throwaway underwater camera didn´t have a zoom. These are the underwater pics from the Galaps, it´s taken 3 attempts to have them developed from the negatives. I want bore you with the story but it´s been a frustrating process for a seemingly easy task.

We were kayaking when we took the penguin pic and were capsized soon afterwards by some pretty decent waves so it was a good decision not to take the digital camera. Capsizing was a good laugh but there had been a few cross words between us before hand and Bec´s rowing ability didn´t transfer to kayaking but her overall general bossiness did. She got an oar in the mouth though for overstepping the mark.

I´d better explain what the pics are:

First 2 are self explanatory, yes that means I´ve forgotten the names of the fish.
Pic 3 Is a Galapagos shark, they aren´t that big only about 3ft long but this was close enough for Bec (look very closely for the shadow in the bottom left hand corner!)
Pic 4 A type of Ray, I think it´s a manta ray rather than a sting ray
Pic 5 Believe it or not these are penguins
Pic 6 A friendly sea lion who wanted to play and swim with us
Pic 7 The turtles . The pic doesn´t show how big they are - about 18 inches to 2ft long

If you think these are small, blurry and hard to make out you should see the other 17 we haven´t put on.

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