Galapagos Pics

by Erik Olsen on

I still plan on posting a Photo of the Day today, but in the meantime, I urge you to check out this site featuring scads of amazing photos from the Galapagos. They are of particular interest to me…or at least this part of the world is…because I am currently re-reading The Beak of the Finch, by Jonathan Weiner. 

This remains one of the best non-fiction books I have ever read. The book is about a husband and wife team of scientists who spend all their years studying the finches on several small islands of the Galapagos and over the course or time (and much data collection) they are able to document the progress of Natural Selection. Really engrossing and fascinating.

But anyway, this series of photos is cool enough in and of itself, and if you want to pick up the book the next time you’re out, well, go right ahead.

Photo of the Day (6/23/06)

by Neil Woodburn on

This is one of those shots that very well could have been taken 10,000 years ago.  It is so primordial, so ancient.  Frankly, it’s no surprise that traveler Tom Taylor captured this shot on the Galapagos Islands where time has indeed, stood still. 

Photo of the Day (6/22/06)

by Neil Woodburn on

If you put your ear up really close, you can hear the ocean!  Today’s shot comes to us from Tom Taylor’s visit to the Galapagos Islands.  It sure looks to me like he traveled back in time to capture this shot instead of catching a boat out to the islands, but that’s his story and he’s stickin’ to it.

Photo of the Day (6/16/06)

by Neil Woodburn on

This Sandy Lightfoot crab in all its glorious colors comes to us today from Nate.  Taken while visiting the Galapagos Islands, the picture is unaltered by Photoshop; these are indeed the crab’s natural colors.  Is it just me, or doesn’t that little bugger have a slightly guilty look on its face? 

Photo of the Day (6/15/06)

by Neil Woodburn on

There is something about big chunks of animal hanging from meat hooks that really drives home the point that you’re no longer at home anymore.  Today’s photo comes to us from Tom Taylor’s recent trip to Ecuador where he stopped to pick up a few supplies at the Saturday market in Zumbahua.  A big, bloody animal head was not one of them.