Sunday, September 1, 2019

Inside Passage, Alaska 2018

from right, the engineer, the captain, the naturalist and the cook. All excellent and very helpful!

Our cook...
who prepared excellent food
Elephant seals on a rock
First show of a whale!
saluting us!
Killer whales(orques) came to see the boat
a pair of sea otters
The inside Passage look like a river but it's the ocean
Our group ready for hiking in the forest
Hiking in the forest...
to a beautiful water fall..
snaping one of the many eagles
then a beautiful deer!
The only bear we saw
Back to the zodiac after the hike
kayaking in pair in the afternoon
or single since I was the only bachelor
Small icebergs nearing the glacier
Facing the 2 glaciers
We could see some calving of the glacier
The group at the glacier

Good Bye!!!


Friday, March 29, 2019

Kids of Asia

At Angkhor (Cambodia) she was scrutinizing us
Also in Cambodia, she charmed us playing with her baby dog
By a cold morning in Tibet this daughter of a herder, out of her tent with a chewing gum
Shy but curious, she took refuge in her mum to examine us, Cambodia
Comfortably seated at the window of an Angkor temple(Cambodia) she inspected me with her beautiful eyes
Who is this blond guy with his camera? Can I eat my rice? Burma
In the Golden Triangle: he was playing with his mother's cellphone
Shy and beautiful with her tanaka to protect from the sun 
she was tough to photograph and shy in her lost village in the middle of nowhere in Burma
carrying in his basket to another village( Burma)
looked at me, intrigued to see a European in his village in the hills of Burma
At the window of his classroom at Kalaw  with tanaka for sun protection
at Kalow,Burma, I surprised this baby nun eating her rice
Big sister smiled for me at the Schewadagong pagoda
In Tibet down from a 5000m pass I stoped for this young herder holding a baby lamb
in a Buthan village up at 4500m we surprised this shy boy and his more curious sister
before becoming the target of these boys playing naughty
under disapproving look from these 2 young girls

Monday, February 18, 2019

Egrets and cormorants in California

At Lake Merrit in Oakland, California, a pelican is watching... 
a great Egret about to land
with majesty...
and comes back later with a lizard in her bill
a snowy egret checks  in the water
and steps on the mud...
she walks aggressively
but turns back....
the danger was this cormorant bringing a stick to ...
to the nest in the tree where many cormorants are nesting
but he has to catch another fish and


bring it back ...

to his family nest