Ecuador

 Just finishing up a two week trip to Ecuador in Puerto Lopez.

Some highlights:

blue footed boobies on Isle de la Plata

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sign in the Ancora hotel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overlook on Isle de la Plata, looking west. No land in sight.

 

Dry tropical forest, rainy season is February-March.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iguana in Guayakill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunset over Puerto Lopez harbor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sex on the beach drink, too sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A termite nest on the trail to the hot springs at Aqua Blanca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The warm springs at Aqua Blanca, mostly sulpherous, took me 15 minutes to walk from one entry steps to the next, even with Body Glove water shoes on. The rocks on the edge were slanted and slick, did make it to the cement lined pool in the background

 

 

 

Tram ride over the Guayakill river in Guayakill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We would go play in the surf most mornings. One day we got there 1 hour from high tide, I never made it out of the crash zone where the receding waves eroded the sand from your feet and didn't have time to move further before the next incoming wave crashed in, usually at least waist high. One time Bret washed past me on the right side and the backwash had him sliding past me on my left side, luckily he didn't knock me down. I looked over to see Randy body sand surfing two successive waves..Can't send you the picture of waves crashing at high tide, can't figure out how to get from phone to laptop. Heading home to Minneapolis on Tuesday, sometime in Feb. back to MI.