Notes:
• Emails (to:) welcomed, suggesting which of these should be “keepers”, and which “get the boot.”
• Click on the thumbnail for an 800×600 display-size image; use your [Back] button to return to these thumbnails.
• To become available in the fullness of time: more captions (suggestions welcomed, to the same email as above).
• Also to become available: a commented index of these pictures; color-laser postcard or greeting card ordering instructions;
and Dan West’s Journal notes from Peru and Ecuador, as well as his Prize and Award presentations in Lima and Quito.
• Barbara’s pictures can be found in her Google Pages area: please visit!
Nazca lines through these clouds? | We promise; don’t tip if we fail. | See? Clouds gone. | Trapezoidal Nazca patterns |
Otherworldly figure | There’s a monkey here (lowcontrast) | ||
That’s our plane’s shadow down there | A hummingbird (?) | Head of a bird | |
Big bird eating wriggly snake | Our first and only Vermilion Flycatcher | ||
That flycatcher again (center) | Baby condor and keeper | Baby condor | |
On the [rail]road to Machu Picchu | |||
Lima ocean landmark, Parcomar | Quito church: exterior detail ... | ... and interior detail | Presidential Palace Guard, Quito |
Central Bank of Ecuador, Quito | Seen in a Quito café: Optimist ’til the end More time ... We’re making good progress ... We just need a little more time ... These things take time, ya know ... The next surge will be better. | ||
Barbara M. on the equator as Queen of the West [In Polish, “The winter noontime sun is in the North” is a linguistic paradox.] | Galapagos Lava Lizard | ||
Sea iguana | Swallow-tailed Gulls and young | ||
Sea lions snoozing (legs: Elmer & ??) | |||
Male Frigatebird following our vessel | |||
Help, Jaime: what's this? | Flycatcher? Warbler? Other? | Fred & Barbara in their stateroom | |
First of several Cuckoos | |||
Blue-footed Booby at rest | |||
A pair of Frigatebirds | |||
Albatross breeding/nesting grounds | |||
Albatross in flight | |||
Albatrosses billing and cooing | |||
Blue-footed Booby, gazing seaward | |||
Blue-footed Booby, looking away | Blue-footed Booby, looking up | ||
Boobies: Mommy, Daddy, and Baby | |||
Detail: the Bluefooted Booby’s eponymous feet | Sea lion pondering posted signage | ||