Galapagos Giant Tortoise – The Original Slow Traveler
The Original Slow Traveler
If patience were a creature, it would wear a shell and call itself the Galapagos Giant Tortoise. A shy Galapagos Giant Tortoise On Santa Cruz Island, I met the Galapagos Giant Tortoise — lumbering, gentle legends who seem to measure time in centuries. They eat, soak, nap, repeat, occasionally sighing as if burdened by human...
The Bird with Blue Shoes — Galapagos Blue-Footed Booby
The Bird with Blue Shoes - the Galapagos Blue footed Booby
Somewhere between comic relief and aerodynamic poetry lives the Galapagos Blue-Footed Booby — proof that evolution occasionally has a sense of humor. Blue-footed Booby Rabida IslandThe famous mating dance of the Blue-Footed Booby
They waddle like toddlers, whistle like old kettles, and perform a mating dance so...
The Grumpy Sunbather — Marine Iguana of the Galapagos
The Grumpy Sunbathers of the Galapagos
They call them dragons, and for once the exaggeration fits. On Fernandina Island, the ground itself seems alive — black lava heaving with hundreds of Galapagos Marine Iguana stacked in lazy piles like prehistoric logs. Galapagos Marine Iguana on Fernandina Island They don’t blink much. Nor do they move much. They just… exist....
The Lazy Lion of the Sea — Galapagos Sea Lions
There are some creatures that make you question your life choices. The Galapagos Sea Lion is one of them... When I first arrived on the islands, I expected to be greeted by a ranger, a guide, maybe a pelican with attitude. Instead, I found a sea lion — sprawled on the beach, snoring gently, a flipper...
Alluring Antarctica- Mr. Lovekesh Dev – January 2024
Antarctica (with the name coming from Anti Arctic or Anti North), on an average is the coldest (lowest measured temperature on earth of -89.2 degree Celsius), driest and windiest of continents. Most of the Antarctica is covered with an ice sheet with an average thickness of 1.9 km (yes - you read it right -...
Antarctica Travel – Forbidding and Inviting – A Beyonder Journey
Did you know that Antarctica was the last place on this planet to be discovered? That too, by chance, when a Russian expedition saw the Fimbul ice shelf in 1820. The first confirmed landing on the continent was by a Norwegian team in 1895. That was the beginning of Antarctica travel. Of course, then there was...
Adaptation in Antarctica – the key to survival – Beyonder
How do animals survive here?
The simple answer is adaptation in Antarctica. Humans put on warm clothes and torches to survive. Animals do better – they adapt. The ocean-dwellers are protected from the extreme weather by the water… The waters are full-up with food and hence it’s a comfortable home… Some migrate to the northern climes...
The Penguins of Antarctica – Beyonder
The Penguins of Antarctica
When one speaks of wildlife in Antarctica, penguins come to mind immediately. In fact, of the eighteen penguin species in the world, eight live in Antarctica. Some call them awkward, ungainly beings, others call them cute. That’s subjective. What is indisputable is that they are fab swimmers. They use their flippers like...
Antarctica and its Seals – Beyonder
Antarctica & its seals have much in common - both are full of mystery and as alluring as forbidding. The seals of Antarctica are as much a draw for the curious traveler as the penguins. Let’s look at some of them…