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Here are a few pictures of the effects of man on the Galápagos.
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A sailboat in the sunset. |
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Graffiti from 1836 on Isabela. |
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A cargo ship in Academy Bay, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, offloading lots of cargo onto several small craft. |
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There was a really nice gallery in Puerto Ayora which sucked us in with very colorful somewhat 3-D rugs made by Maximo Laura. Ultimately we realized that these rugs were so nice you wouldn't put them on a floor. We could actually use some rugs on our floor, but don't have any spaces on our walls large enough for any. They also had mirrors and boxes in a style called retablo which we really liked. We picked a mirror which was small enough to be practical to take as carry-on luggage (14" x 18") through the four remaining flight segments of the trip. After we left we realized we'd neglected to get the name of the artist. In Sedona a week later, we walked into another gallery which had the same rugs and the same retablos. The store owner told us that Nicario Jimenez was the artist, though once we got home we discovered it had been made by brothers Mabilon, Eleudora and Edilberto Jimenez, presumably his relatives. |
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One of several somewhat 3-D murals in Puerto Ayora. |
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A cute bug on our hotel door. |
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A hotel with a big water tank on top that looked like it'd be at home at Burning Man. |
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Unloading onions and other cargo at the dock in Puerto Ayora. I don't know what sort of onion is in the bags pictured here, but the same day there appeared on the Flamingo I the sweetest white onions I have ever had. They had no bite at all --- the word that you might use is "milder" but they had loads of onion flavor, just no pungency. You could eat them raw in chunks and I did. All the goodness and none of the S-propenyl-L-cysteine sulfoxide aftertaste!
I am looking for those onions now. Sigona's in Stanford Shopping center offered some onions last week called "Poppa's Sweets" from Peru, with that STUPID little product code on the STUPID permanent plastic sticker of "4166" but it wasn't close, let alone meriting of a cigar; "Poppa's Sweets" is just an ordinary sweet onion along the lines of Walla Walla, Maui, and Vidalia. Holy crap, there is now someone who collects fruit labels. |
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A jewelry store with a psychedelic gate... |
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... and structure. |
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A giant tortoise sculpture in front of a mural. |
