- Whew. Now I don't
want to sugar coat it. It got pretty cold, and a lot
of the time we were literally IN the clouds, but
it was moments like this that we just sat in
awe.
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Like, this was commonplace
the first day or two. And you're
thinking: "Whoopee. I feel like I'm in
an N64 game. Hot damn" (suuuuuch a geek
reference. Sorry to the normal people). But
the clouds break and blammo:
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So it really is a roll of
the dice. However, no matter the weather? The
place is as close as I've felt to being in
another country without actually being in
another country. It reminded me so much of
Malindi, Kenya... but there was
NOBODY THERE! So spooky. So cool. Oooh
oooh, speaking of spooky...
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What we assume were sea
lion bones right next to an apparent
shipwreck with wood and rope everywhere. It
was so close to the top however, it felt like
some kids' sandbox exhibit: "Pretend you're
an archaeologist!" Still remarkably cool to
dig stuff up and piece it together. Which of
course meant you found things in varying
stages of decay...
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Awww. I mean, yeah
that's really gross - but that's life. Kinda
cool how the skin pulled back away from the
skull isn't it? I'm certainly my mother's son
when it comes to this shit. She thinks this
is just as cool as I do. Her first question
when I told her about this stuff:
"DID YOU BRING ME A BONE?!!?"
:-). Yes, but don't tell anyone. We weren't
supposed to.
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There were of course
plenty of living sea lions and these
cool Elephant Seal mofos, but I'm saving all
that for its own entry. I had quite a little
"dance" with these creatures and it made
for a cute video. Suffice to say, they want
to beat your ass before you club theirs no
matter how cute they look. Heh.
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On the other end of the
scale was what I've dubbed a "dogfly" as this
little bugger dug this entire tunnel like a
dog as you saw in the video. There's
apparently dozens of species on this island
that can be found nowhere else on the world,
including the Island Fox...
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The Urocyon littoralis
littoralis of San Miguel Island is what that
little critter is and according to
Wikipedia
as of 1999 the population had plummeted to 15
adults on San Miguel. Each island has it's
own sub-species of Fox. They're no bigger
than a cat. Pretty cool I caught one on
camera.
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Dubbed the Galapagos
Islands of North America, it was really cool
to spot all the different types of animals
and insects. Granted, they're all variations
of what you can find on the mainland, but
knowing there's nowhere else on the planet
that these species exist is pretty special.
As is flying down a sand dune so fast you
think you're gonna break your
legs.
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