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 Lexi
       
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
 |  | The Galapagos Islands
< on 12/30/2006 10:18 PM >
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I've just returned from my trip to the Galapagos Islands, which collectively make up a province of Ecuador. They're roughly 1000 km off of the Western coast of South America, and are the most humanly untouched place in the world. It was an absolutely explosive experience, I would do it again in a heartbeat.
If the moderators feel that this does not classify as "exploration", (which I think in every respect it does,) then they can feel free to move and/or delete this post.
Merry Christmas everyone.
[15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection
[15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
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Arc_Tangent
 
Arrr, I'm a PIRATE!
Location: Steel-Town
NYAH!!!
| |  | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 1 on 12/30/2006 10:23 PM >
| | | | Nice pictures! Hope you had a great time.
[15:17:47] <Arc_Tangent> Hirnduebel: you rock.
[15:18:15] <Hirnduebel> Arc: You're a rock yourself you rock! |
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jared11
Location: Central Islip, New York
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 2 on 12/31/2006 4:07 PM >
| | | | The animals are like helloooo
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maypost
Location: North, South, East, West, all around... then down to the underground
Gender: Male
Exploring if for n00bz0rz
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 3 on 12/31/2006 4:09 PM >
| | | | oh my god. you are so so so so lucky. That is one of my favorite places on earth.
No boobie pictures? They made me laugh when I was there.
Exploring is like tattoos... They stopped being cool in 2005
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nobody
Location: VANCOUVER B.C.
Gender: Male
5:55 is a state of mind
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 4 on 12/31/2006 4:13 PM >
| | | | So cool, I hope you had a great time, thanks for sharing those. N.
Operating Entirely With Bad Intentions |
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PAexplorations
Location: Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Medication Time...
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 5 on 12/31/2006 4:52 PM >
| | | | I love the colors! excellent photos!
Your hand is staining my window. |
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happykyle77
Location: Anthem Arizona
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 6 on 1/1/2007 8:06 AM >
| | | | awwwwwwwe a baby walrus, seal...thingy! haha
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Wenn
Location: Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
| | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 7 on 1/2/2007 3:57 PM >
| | | | Wonderful pictures! Thanks for sharing.
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Corporal_Clegg
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 8 on 1/2/2007 5:32 PM >
| | | | Holy hell Lexi, good shit.
The seal in #2 is really cute, well just about all of em' are.
"GTFO!"
YEAHBUTWAT |
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KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 9 on 1/2/2007 5:53 PM >
| | | | Nice, Lexi.
"The truth is knowable. But probably not, ever, incontrovertible."
--Don DeLillo
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god_of_fear
Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 10 on 1/2/2007 5:59 PM >
| | | | Number 12 is great! You are so lucky. I am kind of shocked they let you take a shot in the plane.
Fear is the mind-killer. |
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Corporal_Clegg
Location: Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 11 on 1/2/2007 7:50 PM >
| | | | I am kind of shocked they let you take a shot in the plane.
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They are too worried about anybody with an arabic last name to care about some white girl, sad but true.
YEAHBUTWAT |
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Lexi
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 12 on 1/2/2007 9:12 PM >
| | | | Funny story involving that iguana.
Down there it's Iguana mating season right now, so the male iguanas are attracted to things that are yellow, red and orange.
That day we were visiting the island and we had a surplus amount of time. So, I curled up on the rocks and drifted off to sleep - wearing a yellow/red/orange Pantera teeshirt.
I wake up about half an hour later to this big scaley thing humping my stomach, bobbing his head with his tongue out and spitting salt from his nose.
[15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection
[15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
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dan-in-ca
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 13 on 1/2/2007 9:20 PM >
| | | | Beautiful, beautiful pics! Another place to add tot he list of "places to see before I die"!
About photography in planes, When I flew in October I took about 50 shots out the plane's window and nobody said a word.
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god_of_fear
Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
Gender: Male
| | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 14 on 1/2/2007 9:49 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lexi
That day we were visiting the island and we had a surplus amount of time. So, I curled up on the rocks and drifted off to sleep - wearing a yellow/red/orange Pantera teeshirt.
I wake up about half an hour later to this big scaley thing humping my stomach, bobbing his head with his tongue out and spitting salt from his nose.
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So was he any good?
Fear is the mind-killer. |
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 15 on 1/4/2007 4:02 PM >
| | | | Beautiful pics. I like the smiley lizard thing. Was he the one humping you? ;)
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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IrIsHmOm
Location: San Joaquin Valley, CA
Gender: Female
I'll kill your face...
| | | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 16 on 1/4/2007 4:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lexi
Funny story involving that iguana.
Down there it's Iguana mating season right now, so the male iguanas are attracted to things that are yellow, red and orange.
That day we were visiting the island and we had a surplus amount of time. So, I curled up on the rocks and drifted off to sleep - wearing a yellow/red/orange Pantera teeshirt.
I wake up about half an hour later to this big scaley thing humping my stomach, bobbing his head with his tongue out and spitting salt from his nose.
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HAHA!! That's great! These are excellent pics! so jealous.... ^_^
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dewey379
Location: North NJ & Baltimore, MD
Gender: Male
"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici"
| | | | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 17 on 1/4/2007 4:17 PM >
| | | | This must have been such an awesome vacation! If you don't mind me asking what was the extensiveness of your trip and what a trip like this might cost someone. Also from what I remember reading somewhere the tours are very strict on touching animals and any of the wildlife, correct?
We must always fear the wicked.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most,
and that is the indifference of good men. |
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Lexi
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
| | Re: The Galapagos Islands
<Reply # 19 on 1/4/2007 6:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by dewey379
This must have been such an awesome vacation! If you don't mind me asking what was the extensiveness of your trip and what a trip like this might cost someone. Also from what I remember reading somewhere the tours are very strict on touching animals and any of the wildlife, correct?
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The trip itself, including flights and all other expenses, came to about $9,000 per person. My grandfather paid for all 9 of us to go, including taking us out to expensive dinners when we were on the mainland and buying us Christmas presents.
The tours do have a very strict policy on humans touching animals, but the loophole is that if the animals touch you, it's okay. The wildlife there seemed to have a strange fascination with either chasing me, (like the sharks,) cuddling up against me, (like sea lions,) or raping my shirt, (like the iguana.)
We were given an opportunity every day to snorkel and swim with the marine wildlife. I have pictures on a disposable underwater camera of sea lions, sea turtles, sting rays, penguins, boobies, clown fish, star fish, sharks.. the list goes on! The penguins and sea lions are especially playful and will sometimes try to steal your snorkel or pull your bathing suit off of you, (I had the opportunity to experience this,) and the blue footed boobies have a habit of dive-bombing into the water straight in front of you.
The scariest encounter involved a two and a half metre long white tipped shark... I was swimming and a wave caught me and smashed me against some coral, and I ripped my elbow right open. I was bleeding, naturally, and I watched the blood rise in translucent curls towards the surface. I look below me, and there he was - an enormous (for their species of shark,) white tipped shark who had his snout pointed straight at me. My sister then swam up beside me, and I grabbed her and threw her away from me and motioned for her to swim - fast. Just then the shark darted upwards towards me but I managed to swim to the side and crawl up on a rock that jutted out above the surface. The shark continued to swim around the rock and I had to get the dinghy to come and get me.
It was absolutely terrifying!
[15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection
[15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
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