South America Update
Keeping World Geography Students Updated!
South America: A Diverse Continent
From the rainforests (called "The Orient" --"El Oriente" in Spanish) to the highest elevations in the Andes Mountains to the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts, we will study this fascinating, huge continent in depth!
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The Galapagos Islands!
My family and I went on an amazing cruise in the Galapagos Islands last summer! I can't begin to tell you how amazing the islands were! (I only wish we could have stayed another week!)
I am including some pictures I made while I was there for you to see!
No one here but the animals!
It's like being Robinson Crusoe on a desert island! No stores!
Sea Lions All Over!
They will bark in your face! You sometimes have to step over them if they are napping in the middle of a trail. They don't wake up!
Deserted Island!
Sea Lions!
You can stand this close to them and they DON'T care! They have never been harmed by humans, so they look at you with disdain, as if to say, "Well? What do you want?" So precious---and sad to think that animals have learned to be scared of humans.
The Face of a Blue-Footed Booby!
These are the cutest birds ever! Their beaks and feet are blue because of the fish/bones they eat! (This is not my picture! I can't find mine! :( )
Blue-Footed Boobies
You can get so close to them and they don't care! They aren't scared of people because people who come to the Galapagos don't hurt them! In the Galapagos, you are not allowed to leave anything on the islands...you can't bring food because the animals might eat it if you leave it and the scientists will not allow any human influence on the wildlife there. You had better not leave any trash either! If an animal dies on the side of a trail, they leave the carcass there because they don't want to change the natural habitat at all. When you land in the Galapagos, the flight attendants spray all the luggage with disinfectant and you have to walk through disinfectant to minimize the outside germs brought from the mainland!
The Amazon River
The Amazon is the 2nd longest river in the world.
Map of the Amazon River
Icon in Rio de Janeiro
Christ the Redeemer is the iconic statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil!