Friday, September 24, 2010

Las Islas Ballestas

So after arriving in Huacachina I signed up for a morning tour to the Ballestas Islands in Paracas.  The tour was incredible- tons of birds and sea lions on these islands also known as the ¨Poor man´s Galapagos.¨  I tried my best to note the specific names of all the birds, but as our tour guide was giving the tour in both Spanish and English, and I was also in the middle of a German tour group on the boat, some information may have gotten lost in translation.

This is the candelabra that we saw on the side of an island on the way to the Ballestas Islands.  It has the same history as the Nazca lines... noone really knows how it got there!


Boats in Paracas
Sea lions sleeping  (lobos marinos en espanol)


Peruvian Pelicans

Peruvian Pelicans

OK anyone wanna tell me how to rotate these?  Maybe its these old computers I´m using.... anyway I believe if you turn your head these are some Peruvian boobies and pelicans

This is where they collect the guano from the comerants that is used to make a fertilizer. 





humbolt penquins
Okay so because it takes gobs of time to upload photos from my icon, still to be uploaded are the photos of the Humbolt penguins, Inca tern and red-footed comerant.  And probably some more Peruvian boobies :)

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