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!!!

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

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