Bear Bailey
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 3 May 2013 21:47
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Big Bear does
Photography
This morning we found ourselves
waiting with four others to join a bus to the north end of the island to meet
Queen Karen I in the
channel for our trip to North Seymour. There were sixteen of us on the
mini-cruise, five crew and a National Park guide called Omar.
Bear went for a nosy about. It’s a captain thing you know. Yes
dear.
Our first stop was just twenty minutes
away on Bachas Beach. Queen Karen I on the
left.
I knew I would be taking hundreds of
pictures on North Seymour (hopefully of dancing boobies) so I took the bold step
of leaving my big camera on board and asked Bear to takes pictures of this part
of the trip. Other than taking these two of a particularly whiskered old cactus Bear did all the rest.
Quite
uncharacteristically I found myself clicking away. Bachas Beach is well known for the many sea turtles who
come to lay their eggs.
Named after this deserted US barge - left at the end of WWII – the locals
couldn’t say barge so Bachas it became.
Over the dunes was a lagoon with the odd flamingo.
We also saw a
great grey heron............
........and a
marine iguana taking a dip.
On the walk back we stopped to admire
a solitary mangrove, soon others will join
it.
The shallow clear
water here makes for a very popular snorkelling site.
After seeing Daniel and Lucas using
their ordinary cameras underwater, Bear took himself into town the other day and
bought himself a pre-birthday present. A DICAPac came
back to Beez together with a Bear wearing a cheesy grin. Keen to try it out, he
only had to wait until today.
Off to a great
start.
Impressive
Wow
No need to waste pixels on the thing
in the middle but the chaps are good.
Just think what the clarity would
have been like with these chaps had loads of other
tourists not flapped up the sand before we got in. Now all we have to do is get
Bear some stick on prescription lenses so he can see what he is framing up in
the view finder - winner.
Bear even managed sequence shots of this ray.
Delicious lunch of Tuna, salad and rice, served with juice en
route to North Seymour. Who did we overtake just before anchoring – none other
than Galapagos Vision.
Yet another good
sequence ashore.
Nice group
shot.
Handsome but
peeling.
A finch nest with five eggs, very nice and a frigatebird chick
tending to his itch.
Fantastic great
frigatebird.
ALL IN ALL INCREDIBLY
IMPRESSIVE – NEXT STOP BLOGS
OH (WORD THAT RHYMES WITH PIT) THAT’S
TERRIBLE
WELL YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT
ACORNS
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