Fernandina and Isabela Islands
The variety of things that are happening at any one time in the earth’s natural world is immeasurable. We read website reports from Lindblad’s ships in Alaska, where people see icebergs, and from Norway, where our guests walk among pyramid orchids and wildflowers. And these experiences maybe occurring at the same time - maybe even at the same second.
There are so many events that occur in the oceans at one precise moment. Let me focus here in the Galapagos, around the Western Islands in particular. A couple of killer whales, or orcas, show their fins while a dark-rumped petrel shears the piece of blue ocean right next to us. Not too far away in time, a manta ray jumps out of the water and Bryde’s whales bow-ride the Zodiacs. Kids play at inventing new species of birds, with unique and specific life cycles, and the crew prepares lunch. All these things happen in the same relative space, and are going on during almost an identical span of time.
The sun is rising, the sun is setting, and in between, infinite episodes occur. Just a few can be captured by our little minds, so we have to choose the ones to remember, in much the same way that we must choose a picture each day from an countless number of possibilities to put on web.
Will we remember the details of today’s events for a couple of hours, or for several days, or forever? I guess it is impossible to predict what our brains will do with so much input, but in any case, I am sure a cozy, indescribably special feeling will persist in those who shared Isabela and Fernandina Islands under the same skies today.
The variety of things that are happening at any one time in the earth’s natural world is immeasurable. We read website reports from Lindblad’s ships in Alaska, where people see icebergs, and from Norway, where our guests walk among pyramid orchids and wildflowers. And these experiences maybe occurring at the same time - maybe even at the same second.
There are so many events that occur in the oceans at one precise moment. Let me focus here in the Galapagos, around the Western Islands in particular. A couple of killer whales, or orcas, show their fins while a dark-rumped petrel shears the piece of blue ocean right next to us. Not too far away in time, a manta ray jumps out of the water and Bryde’s whales bow-ride the Zodiacs. Kids play at inventing new species of birds, with unique and specific life cycles, and the crew prepares lunch. All these things happen in the same relative space, and are going on during almost an identical span of time.
The sun is rising, the sun is setting, and in between, infinite episodes occur. Just a few can be captured by our little minds, so we have to choose the ones to remember, in much the same way that we must choose a picture each day from an countless number of possibilities to put on web.
Will we remember the details of today’s events for a couple of hours, or for several days, or forever? I guess it is impossible to predict what our brains will do with so much input, but in any case, I am sure a cozy, indescribably special feeling will persist in those who shared Isabela and Fernandina Islands under the same skies today.
