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Leon Dormido, or "sleeping lion rock". |
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We sailed around this welded-tuff outcropping on our first day aboard the Flamingo I. There were lots of sea birds flying around it and a great view of the sunset through a crevice. |
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Clouds over Fernandina Island. |
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A brackish lake on Isabela Island. |
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A volcano on Isabela seen from the shoreline on Fernandina. You can see all of our traveling companions on the Flamingo I taking in different aspects of the experience. |
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One evening we had a great view of the "green flash". The green flash can be seen when the sun sets (or rises) on a completely flat horizon and the air is very clear. The green image of the sun sets later than the other colors, so as you watch the sun set, you notice that the last little bit of it has an unmistakable green tinge. |
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Lava tunnels on Bartolomeo. |
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A red lava rock on Bartolomeo. |
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The thin neck of Bartolomeo Island with Pinnacle Rock. Santiago island is in the background. |
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A lava tube in Santa Cruz island. It's actually possible to walk a kilometer through this tube and come out the other end but about 200 meters in you get to a place where you would have to get very muddy and crawl on your belly and bang up your camera and stuff. But the electric lights have been strung through so there must be something there. Viet Cong probably. |
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Stalactites in the lava tube. |