2017-02-16 Socorro’s Cloud Forest

We left the boat early this morning, and the Marines graciously offered to give us a ride in trucks partway up the mountain. When the trucks could go no further…

2017-02-15 Our First Afternoon At Isla Socorro

We left Isla San Benedicto early this morning and drove the boat 32 miles south to Isla Socorro and arrived to anchor about 8:00am. Even though we had all the…

Rat Theater Version 2.1

Processing images from the boat cruise consumed all my time this month. Recently Scott Tremor (San Diego Natural History Museum) and I camped out in our local desert to trap…

2017-02-14 Isla San Benedicto

Our company would meet Isla San Benedicto this morning. The object of our journey, the Archipiélago de Revillagigedo was finally at hand. On August 1, 1952 at 8:30 AM, the…

2017-02-13 Seafaring South

Monday was a travel day on board the Shogun. We had 350 miles to navigate, and at 10-12 miles per hour it would take a while. While the captain and…

2017-02-12 Isla Santa Margarita

We left Isla Asuncion late in the afternoon, and while we slept, the captain and crew drove all night towards our next destination: Isla Santa Margarita, ¾ the way down…

2017-02-11 The Rocky Islands

This was an exciting day for us. It would be our first contact with terra firma in three days. We’d travelled approximately halfway down the Baja peninsula. Our time on…

2017-02-11 Passage to The Rocks

Amy and Jorge are always up at the crack of dawn, forward of the bridge and counting birds. No matter how early I rose each morning, I would find them…

2017-02-10 Seafaring South

On the second day of our voyage the overcast and fog that met us at the start of our journey continued, making conditions for capturing images a challenge. For those…

2017-02-09 San Diego and Ensenada

We left San Diego through a shroud of fog and marine haze. We expected to see whales and dolphins on this first day of our voyage to the islands of…