I got plenty of opportunities to find scorpions in Madagascar… especially when we were doing the Spider Tortoise survey – I think I found maybe six or seven by just turning over dead logs.
I leave on the next round of my travels soon (tomorrow)… I have some posts scheduled, but I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to start posting new stuff so stick with me and hopefully I won’t be radio silent for long. The first…
One of the guides spotted this little guy on one of our park hikes. Very cool gecko.
Sometimes the sunset just isn’t as nice as you’d like… I wanted to wait and see how well the colors developed, but it was getting dark quickly, and I wasn’t sure how strict they are about hiking after sunset down in Summersville, WV. So I…
I recently completed some open water dives in Summersville Lake, WV for a drysuit course I was taking. At the same time, I took my new MacroMateMini filter for my GoPro and captured some video of some tiny fish. Someone said the one with the…
Another big post of waterfalls, so let’s get right to it… Wyandot – 15′ To be entirely honest, at this point the park was getting more crowded, it was starting to rain, and I was starting to get hungry… so my compositions aren’t always the…
There are only three waterfalls on the southern leg of the Falls Trail System and I wonder how many folks do themselves a disservice and skip this section. These are three very nice falls. Murray Reynolds – 36′ Sheldon Reynolds – 36′ Huh – I…
Ok – no waterfall today… About midway through my hike, there was a nice downed tree that was laying across Kitchen Creek and offered a perfect opportunity to stop and relax on a limb of the tree that made a reclined seat. I sat and…
Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania is known for having 22 named waterfalls within a very short distance (the park brochure says both 7.2 miles and 3.2 miles, but I’m having a hard time telling which number is correct – if either). Also, the main…
I recently spent a weekend in upstate New York visiting my friend Philippe, and we spent some time out hiking. First we visited a trail outside Old Forge, NY and while there was plenty of water flowing everywhere (including right down the trail path), I…
I forget the name of this village where this was taken… sorry! I am pretty sure that this is from our excursion to go visit the sea cucumber ranch. As was my habit while in Mada, I woke up early to go see the sunrise,…
Ok – I rarely take photos of people, I never felt I was very good at it. However, every once in a while I get a situation that works well for me to do so and I get some lucky shots that work…. Dupont is…
On the return trip north to Tana, we visited more parks and got to see Golden Bamboo Lemurs…
I could have sworn I shared this one already, and I guess I kind of have shared a small slice of it… It is the image I used in the header banner on the main page. Oh and as a bonus, here’s another I haven’t…
I’d seen one of these in Wakatobi, so as soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I was looking at. Unfortunately the camera was acting up and I could not get a good photo of the larger female like I wanted. There were…
One of the invertebrate species we surveyed… this species of sea urchin burrows into crevices in the reef and you only ever see them protruding out of a hole like this.
I spotted these egrets on this fence both times I went to the spiny forest to check out the baobabs. I had wanted to get closer, but I also like this shot with a bit of action going on with these guys chasing each other.…
Sometimes I feel bad not being more specific on the species of critters I am sharing – remember that shrimp goby post from the other day? But sometimes it is really difficult. Case in point, this looks like a fairly distinct nudibranch, but once you…
Oh yeah… I went to that Paris place… Actually, the day I arrived, the one lady who sold me my metro tickets mentioned that they were going to be doing a light show on the Eiffel Tower to celebrate its 130th anniversary. At the time,…
One of the benthic animals that we identified for our surveys were zooanthids. We didn’t get to the level of species identification, and flipping through my reef creature ID book quickly, there is little info in there about them. This is a less common species…
The guy above is an Arc-eye Hawkfish and the gal (yes, I am sure it is a female because the males have wavy lines on their cheeks) is a Speckled Sandperch. Neither fish were among the ones we surveyed and I realize I was pretty…
These trees are just so cool… The locals will carve into them to be able to drink the water that they store… and then eventually those carved openings become large enough that you can also use them for shelter… But there is just something to…
Well, I found a quick way to get some more posts… I have a bunch of photos I’ve uploaded with the intention of sharing, but have not yet done so… So first up is a cool nudibranch that I only saw a couple times on…
These are almost always somewhere on a coral reef, and they’re always interesting to look at, and fun to make disappear with just a wave of your hand…
I should ID this little guy, and I wish I had been able to get a photo with his burrow-mate shrimp (they’re usually much more skittish and vanish before the fish do)… but for now, just sharing a photo of a cool fish…
Fortuitous trees on either bank just downstream from a nice waterfall…
Finally complete. I feel it isn’t the best I can do, so I’ll have to collect more sets and try again in the future. I hope you enjoy. Warning: the audio might be set a little loud…
I was hoping to find some cool and crazy looking insects while in Madagascar (ok – we did get to see some stick insects, but I didn’t have the good camera with me that day), but while praying mantis are always fun to find and…
