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Chris Wood and Fishing

Went to see Chris Wood play last night. Excellent stuff. For example see this.

And I've been fishing for the first time this year. I seemed to have improved massively since last year - the fish practically threw themselves onto the bank. Might have something to do with the May Fly hatch though. We shall eat well this week. It's certainly spring - Cuckoos, Hobbys, Baby Wrens etc.. Time for me to go out looking for Badgers, Owls and Snakes I think.

And finally, I have removed my Twitter feed from the right. Have decided that my photos are far more interesting than anything I could possible have to say - which, as it turned out, was actually very little.

17/05/12

Galapagos Diary

Have created a page for my Galapagos Diary thing. I have a very limited vocabulary, and not much imagination, so the diary is probably of no interest to anyone except me. But it's a way of linking together some of the photos.

Anyway, it be here

16/05/12

Short Under Water Galapagos Video Clip

I have put together a short 3 minute video of under water clips I took of us snorkelling with Fur Seals, Penguins, Marine Iguanas, Rays, Turtles, Fish and Sharks. I don't have any decent video editing software, so it's a bit rough.

Nevertheless, find it here on YouTube.

15/05/12

Ecuador Cloud Forest and Home

Have spent 3 nights in the cloud forests north of Quito in Ecuador. Very cloudy and foresty. We were staying at Tandayapa Bird Lodge with the aim of seeing a load of new birds, and in particular, Humming Birds.

Success - on two days we went out from the lodge looking for specific birds and spotted near 100, of which I managed to get photos of about half. Also spent some time perfecting the art of Humming Bird photography.

Loads of photos. May process them all over time, but for now, the summary can be found here. And of course, a couple on the right. I also quite like this one.

We are home now.

14/05/12

Galapagos Islands - Initial Report

Okay, so just been on a very cool 2 week trip around the Galapagos. When we get back I will do a proper report and update. But, in summary, best holiday ever. And, even if I say so myself, my photos kick ass. All 279 of them in fact.

After two weeks on the boat, we're spending a couple of days in a hotel on one of the islands. Patchy internet access. And if there's some news report about internet access in the Galapagos going down, I suspect it's due to me hammering the entire Galapagos bandwidth with my photo uploads.

Two taster photos on the right. The rest can all be found here, ordered by day, along with a map. Some things have not been fully identified yet - will do so later. Also, photos could be ordered better, but I am on holiday, so can't waste too much time html coding.

Full and proper update, along with diary will follow soon(ish).

07/05/12

Fishing Fishing 19/05/12

Chris Wood Chris Wood 18/05/12

Humming Bird Humming Bird 12/05/12

Tandayapa Day 2 Summary Tandayapa 11/05/12

Samba Our Boat 07/05/12

Turtle Turtle 07/05/12

Quito Hotel View Quito Hotel 23/04/12

Quito Quito 23/04/12

Amsterdam 2012 Amsterdam 21/04/12

Amsterdam 2012 Amsterdam 21/04/12

Easter Owl Easter Owl 09/04/12

Hawfinch Hawfinch 01/04/12

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