Photos taken by Eleniki

Wildlife of Galápagos

the book, that is..

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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motor launch

This is how we got from our catamaran to the shores and snorkelling sites

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Blue

The blue-footed boobys´silly expressons are more than made up for by their adorable feet

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Galápagos pelican

These birds have such immense dignity - their flight is a sort of unflappable flapping with their huge wings, needed to support the heavy body and beak

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Petulant

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Lightfoot crab up close

Having great eyesight, the sally lightfoots always scuttled away in great panic if you approached at all,so the zoom came in handy

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Inlet

More intense colours, almost shocking in their sudden beauty, like an oasis in the baked landscape

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Lava rock

The contrasting colours constantly draw the eye in

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Grey and red

The brittle ground cover spreads like a web of twigs

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Dried seaweed

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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lava rock pool, galapagos

The rock is so porous, you feel the water should leak through

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Iguana rock

Masters of disguise, they meld organically with the rocks they adorn

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Frigate bird

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Sally Lightfoot

This name is given to these twinkle-toed Galápagan crabs in affectionate reference to the famous dancer of yore

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Salt spray

The marine iguanas sit on rocks drying off from their dives into the sea for algae. They are slow and infinitely pre-historic, like creatures from the mists of time. They blow the salt accumulated from their underwater foraging out their nostrils and shake their heads in a territorial defense signal when approached too closely

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Galápagan flycatcher

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Galápagan landscape

The terrain is an artist´s paradise. Objects, colour, textures: bizarre and unearthly, they have a unique and barren attraction

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Rock and cactus fibre

The cactus sheds its external layer; this breaks down until only this fine fibre is left

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Jan

He was taken by surprise, which is why it´s such a nice photo

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Cactus bark, Santa Cruz island

It´s the detail on the islands that is so beautiful - up close, the colours amaze

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Great Archipiélago de Colón explorers, vol. 899

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Iguana sculpture

They seem to be carved out of the rock themselves

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Marine iguana hand

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Cactus-scape

Dry, red, baked earth, with palo santo trees and cacti - that´s what the islands look like

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Lava bed

The wonder is how cacti can possibly grow out of aged lava - but they do - they seal water inside their pads, and it stays there for the lifetime of the plant

• Date: 16 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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