a lifetime of Galápagos experience at your service
— A lot more than meets the eye.
As a child growing up in the then-remote Galápagos Islands, the birds that surrounded my island home — unafraid as they were — fascinated me. Before long I had learned to recognize every species with ease, but it was their oft-surprising behavior and specialized natural history that truly captured my imagination…
— A time-warp journey with Dr. Sylvia Earle.
I had never really believed that time travel was possible. And yet, in a convoluted way, it happened to me just last month! Here I was, encased in a state-of-the arts Perspex bubble attached to one of the most highly sophisticated deep-sea submersibles in existence today…
— or is it?
I remember long ago when, during my first guide’s course given by Charles Darwin Station scientists nearly 50 years ago, I was delving deep into the evolutionary literature on Galápagos. Somewhere I came across two lines in the same chapter that really made me wonder…
A heart-warming tale of return from exile…
It’s already hot on this December morning on Española Island. The southernmost of the Galapagos Islands is also one of the driest, and the sunbaked lava rocks seem to fair shimmer with heatwaves, even though the cool season hasn’t ended yet. Everything is still, the plants are dormant, waiting for …
My discovery has gone viral on BBC Earth! Here’s the backstory…
It’s official, with over 10 million hits on the Facebook clip alone, the story that I discovered and revealed to the team who filmed the BBC America TV series EDEN: UNTAMED PLANET (episode 4) has become a smash hit! It all started innocently enough five years ago…
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