Galapagos Critters Doing Double Duty

Below, this sanderling casts a delicate bird-shaped shadow as it dines on a piece of cactus.

Neither the sea lion nor the Galapagos gulls pay any attention to the sinister shadow cast by the marine iguana and the rock on which it sits.

A young sea lion watches a Sally Lightfoot crab hiding in the shadow of an overhanging rock.

Camouflaged in the shadows of opuntia (prickly pear) cactus, are a Galapagos gull (left) and a juvenile red-footed booby.

This Galapagos gull chooses not to lie in the shade, but in the sunshine, where he casts his own shadow.

Today I have

birds, reptiles, mammals and crustaceans for both

Camera Critters

and

Shadow Shot Sunday

Photos by Kay Davies and Richard Schear

Scenes as I've seen 'em

above, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China

above, rainy day in Alaska

above, taken from a panga in the Galapagos Islands

above, in the Galapagos Islands

above, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula

above, in Costa Rica

above, in Tenerife, Canary Islands

above, marine iguanas inland, Galapagos Islands

above, the jungle, Costa Rica

above, Galapagos Islands

above, specially bred sled dogs, and Dick, in Whitehorse, Yukon

Almost invariably, when we travel, Dick sees the scenery and I see Dick's back. Never content to walk beside me, seldom remembering to offer me his arm or his hand, my big, strong, healthy husband is usually walking some steps ahead of me: sometimes a few steps, sometimes a great many steps. So I'm working on a chapter for An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel entitled: "The back of Dick's back"!