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A lovely gloomy day at the beach last weekend

Our backyard camera caught a baby bird being fed on the deck

When you get the foster dog to chase you, but forget that the foster dog dug a couple of holes earlier

A year ago I was staring up at the canopy while paddling down a creek in the Amazon rainforest. I miss a year ago. (Sound on for full Amazon rainforest sound effects.)

Olive spreading holiday cheer

A few weeks ago a coyote den was discovered and cleared out behind our yard. Since then the raccoons have reappeared and the other night they tried to get in through our back door.

Olive learns to swim

We haven’t seen any critters in the backyard recently, aside from a gopher. We suspect that the coyotes in the neighborhood are the reason why. So it was actually kind of nice to see this possum under the deck.

One day we saw a school of golden rays from the boat and I was disappointed that we weren’t in the water at the time. Then the next day while snorkeling this happened 😳

Before going to the Galápagos we hoped we’d get the chance to swim with sea lions. We ended up swimming with them so often that this is just a small amount of the highlights

Penguins may look slow and clumsy on land, but they sure can fly underwater

I’ve swum with sea turtles before in Hawaii, but never the sheer numbers that we saw in the Galápagos

Seeing marine iguanas on land was cool, but getting to swim with them was something else

I have so much video from the Galápagos that I decided to group by animal. First up: sharks! The whitetip reef sharks were only about five feet long, but the largest hammerhead shark was estimated by the guide to be 10-12 feet long.