The 2013 Galapagos expedition is a wrap. Thanks to everyone that participated, and job well done. We were able to document over 10km of lava tubes on the islands. New friendships were made, old friendships continued. The teams were productive while still producing high quality data. All of the sketching was done to scale with rectangular protractors.
The expedition by the numbers:
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| Cueva Soyla field notes |
The expedition by the numbers:
9 cavers
3 sketchers
12 days of survey
19 caves
238 pages of survey notes
10,039m of cave survey
The last day we decided to go to a remote beach for some much deserved down time. El Garrapatero beach is about a 30min. drive from town, so we made our usual early start. We were rewarded by being the first arrivals at the beach for the day and securing the largest shaded area on the beach.
12 days of survey
19 caves
238 pages of survey notes
10,039m of cave survey
The last day we decided to go to a remote beach for some much deserved down time. El Garrapatero beach is about a 30min. drive from town, so we made our usual early start. We were rewarded by being the first arrivals at the beach for the day and securing the largest shaded area on the beach.
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| Garrapatero Beach |
You can get very close to the wildlife at some Galapagos beaches, leading to photos that are usually very difficult to get otherwise.
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| Marine iguana |
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| Brown pelican |
Of course, no blog on the topic of Galapagos would be complete without at least a couple photos of giant tortoises. So, with that I will close this blog. Thank you to everyone that encouraged me to write it and those that read the posts. Maybe we can do it again sometime. -Aaron
Hello, thanks for your blog. I'm a french caver and I'm interested in lava tubes. You will write a book after your expedition ? Nathalie from Lyon
ReplyDeleteI do hope that you will submit an article to the NSS News.
ReplyDeleteWe ran into a couple of your expedition members on the return for the conference (Mar14) and then, intrigued by lava tubes after talking to them, stumbled across this blog. Thank you for making the effort to document your expedition, it was a very interesting read.
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