Photos taken by Eleniki

Adorable

It´s hard not to go 'awwwww' nonstop - they look so sad and helpless

• Date: 20 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Motherhood

This female seemed exhausted by the constant demands of her gorgeous pup, a floppy little ball of fur who wouldn´t stay still

• Date: 20 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Baby seal

Yes, they´re every bit as adorable as you´d expect, but there's usually a fierce male protector close by, so you can´t go too close!

• Date: 20 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Beach talk

Our guide Morris chatting with Jan on San Cristobal island

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Pristine

The beaches, though there aren´t many of them, are unspoiled on Galápagos

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Palo santo tree and white sand

These trees look dead, but are just in winter season. The name means 'holy stick', also the word for incense.

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Mangrove trees, San Cristóbal

These clumps of mangrove grow all along the deserted shorelines

• Date: 19 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Galápagos, Ecuador: gallery
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Palo Santo tree/me

Scorching day, yet the water was pretty cold

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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In the shallows

Our trusty launch

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Desert island

A glorious shade of blue

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Kicker Rock, receding

Yes, that´s how enormous it is, and how far out in the lonely ocean too

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Snorkellers

Maurice, our Galápagan guide, shows the others the signs for 'shark', 'sealion', and 'help'..

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Too late

Katrin was already in as Bruce let go, but at least he was a lifeguard in a past incarnation

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Katrin the brave

I wouldn´t have done it - the boat was rocking violently and the water was fathoms deep. And there were sharks

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Drying off

Their fur only looks black and shiny when they´re wet - it´s brown and soft when they dry off. Many people mistake this variation in colour for a species difference

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Basking sealions

Even on the sheer shores of the massive rearing rock, the sealions found a place to soak up the sun

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Sea tunnel, Kicker Rock

The intrepid snorkellers made their way through this tunnel and were met by the launch on the other side

• Date: 18 December 2007
• Photographer: Eleniki: gallery
• Location: Ecuador: gallery
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Kicker Rock

We were scheduled to snorkel in the 200 metre deep waters around this daunting rock. Only 3 of the 6 of us braved the swell, but they were rewarded with a clear sight of hammer-head sharks in the depths below

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