Sunday, June 3, 2012

Galapagos Underwater

Here are some of the underwater pictures we took. We went snorkeling twice a day almost every day so we saw a lot of things in the water, but we only brought 2 underwater cameras so we don't have too many pictures from it. There was as much to see below water as there was above. We saw plenty of small fish, starfish, a few sharks, sea lions, penguins, and turtles. The penguins were the most skittish so I didn't get any good pictures of them, but the sea lions and sea turtles weren't phased by us at all. The visibility wasn't too good underwater, so I apologize about the graininess in the photos.

Here are some of the sea lions that swam alongside us. They are pretty big as you can see, and very fast.




Here are some of the sea turtles.




At one point Greg was attacked by a Flightless Cormorant bird. It thought Greg's camera was food (every photographer's dream) so it kept trying to peck at his camera.


He tried to splash it to keep it away, but it was very persistent.


This is a picture he snapped of the bird underwater.


Eventually the bird gave up and left, but it was a funny sight.