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Archive for the ‘Boobies + Frigatebirds’Jan 4, 09 Comments (0)
 flying-boobie Good evening friends, another shot for my bird lovers out there, this is the Brown Booby in flight! Look how cool his tail feather are?? I think I told you all weeks ago that we have two of these on the premise and I kid you not when I say you can walk right up to them and feed them. In fact moments before I took this photo he and I both were standing on the same three foot wide bridge. I had to walk by him to get to the other side and he never moved, he just looked up at me and squawked! The dolphin trainers hate these two because of their persistence to steal fish from the dolphins, they are relentless and can really be a pain. For me I look at it as a photo opportunity every time because they fly in circles above us making it very easy to capture them in flight. Aimee and I did spot a new bird the other day that looked like a booby as well but we never got a good enough look or a picture have been looking for him ever since.
Today I did three snorkels with the dolphins, just me and the camera! I have quit using tanks as they don’t seem to like them so it’s back to holding my breath and diving down, do that for three hours and man does it make you tired! I got to watch our big male Copan mate with Teresa today and from my view it was very successful, I think we can guarantee a baby 12 month’s from now! Aimee just made a great dinner, Inca and Indi are chewing on bones and I am almost falling asleep, talk to you tomorrow! Curacao regards, Barry
01-04-2009
Dec 12, 08 Comments (0)
 brown-boobie Good evening, We had a really fun Brown family adventure this morning at Playa Ascension on the north west side of the island. We parked the car up at the top near the main road and hiked down the dirt road towards Ascension bay, it’s about a mile walk. We found a trail that was really overgrown and headed straight up the side of a mountain on the east side of the road. I could see from down below that this was where we needed to get to for a panoramic scene of the whole area. The walking was tough and the mosquitoes were terrible not to mention the trail went straight up the side of this rocky hill??! The dogs loved it and kept running back and forth to check on their two gasping for breath owners. I said to Aimee more than once, “geez are we out of shape or is this trail straight up”?? It was a pretty difficult climb, very loose and very steep but the rewards at the top, well your just going to have to wait for the panoramic I shot for you, your gonna love it! The top was completely covered in tiny little barrel cacti, thorns, and jagged limestone which made the walk to the edge where I needed to be very slow and very dangerous. We pulled thorn after thorn out of the dogs paws but within 30 minutes we were at the top overlooking the whole Ascension valley , it was breath taking! We stayed up there for another 30 minutes taking photos and waiting for clouds to pass and finally after we finished we again slowly made our way back to the trailhead and down we went sliding on our butts most of the way. Once back out on the dirt road we hiked down to the ocean and let the girls go wild, they chased each other and swam till they just plain ran out of gas, that’s how we like them! It was a fantastic semi cool morning in Curacao, the sun was just glowing on the surrounding hills, ospreys and cara-cara’s flew overhead and the sound of the ocean waves rolling into the bay was nothing short of perfection, it was a fun morning!
We then spent the rest of the day preparing the house and the car for our soon to be arriving guests who fly in Monday evening. I took this picture at work on Wednesday, this is a brown footed booby. We have two of these birds at work now they have kind of moved in. Normally these birds dive for fish in the ocean but these two have figured out that stealing the dolphins fish is either way easier or it’s just plain fun. These boobies are the most unafraid birds you will ever see, you can walk right up to them and give them a fish or like I did put a camera right in their face!
I smell fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, I am otta here, see you tomorrow, Barry
12-12-2008
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