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                                        17 viewsI had been joking about taking some National Geographic photos the night before and that morning they were there daring me to try.
                                        
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                                        18 viewsFloreana Island.
                                        
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                                        19 viewsThe cacti trees are pretty much everywhere.
                                        
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                                        19 viewsA line of trees marches up the hill
                                        
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                                        19 viewsSome blue-footed boobies watch the coming weather.
                                        
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                                        18 viewsThe best boobies photos are of pairs.
                                        
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                                        19 viewsA Great Blue Heron blatantly ignores our ship.
                                        
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                                        15 viewsPost Office Bay: ships used to drop letters here in the hopes that other ships going in that direction would deliver them. Now we do it with travellers and postcards. And yes, I did find one to Saskatoon.
                                        
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                                        20 viewsHere goes a postcard to my family. Bet I get there first.
                                        
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                                        18 viewsThis pirate cave used to be filled with grog (AKA Rum)
                                        
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                                        20 viewsSnorkeling off Floreana.
                                        
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                                        21 viewsSome Rainbow Wrasses looking for algae.
                                        
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                                        19 viewsA baby scorpion fish: I wonder if they're still deadly?
                                        
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                                        18 viewsI'd guess this is a variation of sea urchin.
                                        
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                                        22 viewsDevil's Crown, where we'd do our second of three snorkels for the day.
                                        
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                                        21 viewsI'm now armed with the Swiss' underwater enclosure and we're ready to snorkel.
                                        
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                                        23 viewsSome yellow-fin Sergeants on patrol.
                                        
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                                        19 viewsThis was a really playful sealion.
                                        
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                                        20 viewsHe liked to come straight at me and see if I'd flinch. Not today, sea lion. Not after the hammerheads.
                                        
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                                        20 viewsUnderwater ballet.
                                        
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