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Antarctica

Early morning - just as the sun was coming up

Researchers from Palmer Station trying to get back through the ice that creeps in so fast it's incredible.

You can see how far they had to go to get back

It had been shrouded in clouds until they started lifting a little.

Hope Bay, absolutely a stunning place in Antarctic Sound

This piece of ice shelf was over a mile and a half wide....only 20 % is showing above water

Amazonia

The Amazon River, the clouds caught my attention and there are the most intense thunderstorms almost every night.

This is rainy season but it will still rise another 20 - 30 ft by June

Boca da Valeria, went in a locals canoe into the smaller arms of the amazon

Houses are either built on stilts or are floating along the Amazon River

Ballestas Islands, Peru

A haven for wildlife, they call it the Galapagos of Peru

Peruvian Boobies, they use the same nest year after year on the cliffs.

Nest with young ones

Cormorants, and birds as far back as the eye can see...all those black dots are birds.

Penguins that have made the Ballestas their home.

Matrimony Beach, very noisy place!

This seal was so comfy, his head was upside down.

Humpback Whales were everywhere, I didn't realize I had captured some of them in photos

Shrouded in Clouds with an albatross soaring

Isla Robinson Crusoe

A magical, mystical Island

This is the flower of this plant

Costa Rica

From inside one of the caves looking out

The colours in some places were amazing

A path up high to get to the caves

These were left here from WW1

A truly fascinating Island

The animals go into the river to cool off

Kids in a canoe fishing

Ushuaia, Argentina

The End Of The World

The southern most city in the world, they paint houses, roofs bright colours.

Ushuaia is the jumping off port for many of the antarctic expeditions, including National Geographic.

Panama

San Blas Islands

Pelican, Arica, Chile

Arica, Chile, just hanging out

Panama Canal

PanamaCanal Dam

Panama City

Meeting Of The Waters, near Manaus Brazil...where the Rio Negro which is black and the Amazon which is sandy run side by side for 60 km never mixing.

The only bridge across the Amazon, Manaus, Brazil

GeneralSanMartinPisco, Peru, Candelabra

This is one of the dries places on earth and this prehistoric geoglyph is preserved because of so little rainfall to erode it.

a woman making a panama hat, all panama hats are made in Ecuador

Montevideo, Uruguay

Ilhabela , Brazil, falls

Lighthouse on Falkland Islands

Ft. Stanley, Falkland Islands, always rough seas and wind and flat as a pancake.

Punta Arenas, Chile

A preserve for the magellanic penguins, their numbers are diminishing rapidly

They build their nests inland a bit and walk to the ocean everyday, their nests are hollows in the ground that they dig out.

Devil's Island, looks like a tropical paradise, the history is horrible.

Belem, Brazil...a market

Manaus, Brazil, a favela at the shore of the Amazon River

A Masked Boobie, they are very adept at catching the flying fish , they can turn on a dime, catching them in mid-air or diving right into the ocean after them, fun to watch.