Please consider all images as copyrighted and contact me for permission to use or reproduce them. Thank you. New Zealand was, and still is, a remote set of islands crunched, sunk, and elevated by eons of living on the edge. The islands are along the intersection of the Australian and Pacific plates; great slabs ofContinue reading “New Zealand; endemic birds”
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Africa; Elephants – teeth and tusks
Please consider all images as copyrighted and contact me for permission to use or reproduce. Thank you, DEC. For most of us elephants have only two teeth – the tusks. But they also have a most interesting progression of grinding teeth. Elephants eat branches, twigs, leaves, and clumps of grass. At a minimum the dietContinue reading “Africa; Elephants – teeth and tusks”
Africa; Elephants – family life
Please consider all images as copyrighted; please contact me for permission to use these pictures. I will be doing at least five pages on elephants (family, teeth and tusks, human interactions, water, and simply their majesty) over the next few days. This will likely open the door to many questions about other African animals andContinue reading “Africa; Elephants – family life”
New Zealand; limestone cave
New Zealand has been under the sea for millions of years during the past eons. It is up and down based on the pressure being applied to the edges of the continental plates of which it is part. Actually New Zealand is at a junction of two plates and it slides, bumps, jumps, and changesContinue reading “New Zealand; limestone cave”
Alaska; Homer the Town
Alaska has few towns and almost no towns that are like we are used to in the lower forty-eight. Anchorage is a city. Fairbanks is a small city, Juneau is a small island tourist town. Then there are the string of towns between Anchorage and Fairbanks; Palmer, Wasilla, Talkeetna, and Healy. There are a few moreContinue reading “Alaska; Homer the Town”
Cape Cod; banding Red Knots
Cape Cod is changing daily. Each tide moves thousands of cubic yards of sand and each storm makes your map even more useless. Barrier beaches protect much of the coast but they are also coming and going almost daily. Chatham is the town at the elbow of the Cape. From here you go east intoContinue reading “Cape Cod; banding Red Knots”
Alaska; Denali’s moose
Moose are large and look quite ungainly. They have very long legs, an absurdly long face, and have a diet that is pure roughage. The winter coat is long, rough and grayish. They are very nice looking from a distance, so right for the landscape, but up close I tended to find all their faults.Continue reading “Alaska; Denali’s moose”
Alaska; a boat ride out of Homer
Please consider all images as copyrighted and ask permission if you want to use them in some way. Thank you, DEClapp. I should first say that Homer is a very crisp town at the end of the Kenai Peninsula about 225 miles from Anchorage and up against the waters of the Cook Inlet. The SewardContinue reading “Alaska; a boat ride out of Homer”
Alaska; A Typical Day’s Problems
As you probably can tell when we are on vacation birding and photographing great places there really are no pressing problems. Except that we bounce from one place to another and I’m always leaving something next to the car or on the roof or hanging from a post. It happens all to often; I’d worryContinue reading “Alaska; A Typical Day’s Problems”
On The Road With DEC 