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 |
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| ![]() 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 |
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![]() That flycatcher again (center) | ![]() Baby condor and keeper | ![]() Baby condor |
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| ![]() On the [rail]road to Machu Picchu |
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![]() Lima ocean landmark, Parcomar | ![]() Quito church: exterior detail ... | ![]() ... and interior detail | ![]() Presidential Palace Guard, Quito |
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![]() Central Bank of Ecuador, Quito |
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| 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 |
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![]() Sea iguana | ![]() Swallow-tailed Gulls and young |
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| ![]() Sea lions snoozing (legs: Elmer & ??) |
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| ![]() Male Frigatebird following our vessel |
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| ![]() Help, Jaime: what's this? | ![]() Flycatcher? Warbler? Other? | ![]() Fred & Barbara in their stateroom |
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| ![]() First of several Cuckoos |
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| ![]() Blue-footed Booby at rest |
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| ![]() A pair of Frigatebirds |
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| ![]() Albatross breeding/nesting grounds |
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| ![]() Albatross in flight |
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| ![]() Albatrosses billing and cooing |
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| ![]() Blue-footed Booby, gazing seaward |
![]() Blue-footed Booby, looking away | ![]() Blue-footed Booby, looking up |
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| ![]() Boobies: Mommy, Daddy, and Baby |
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![]() Detail: the Bluefooted Booby’s eponymous feet |
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| ![]() Sea lion pondering posted signage |