Some Shots From Ecuador's Coast

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,

Your justice like the great deep.

You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.




















Yes, he is in there . . . yeah, he's there. Possibly a stenocercus iridescens, or iguana to most of us.








Here . . . let's get closer. A LOT closer. Actually, I never got near him. I helped a small crab escape the swimming pool where someone had put it. Yeah, picked that out of the water.


As to the beached eel, I was willing to let it be. I pointed it out to a passing beachcomber, and with his stick, he flicked it into the water.






And what do you suppose is going on here?




















Pelecanus occidentalis, which is known as the brown pelican, captures fish by a spectacular plunge from the air. Other species of pelicans swim in formation, driving small schools of fish into shoal water where they are scooped up by the birds.












There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.