Saturday, June 30, 2007
Fish Food
Today we went on a snorkeling trip. I think these pictures are the best underwater pictures we have taken so far. Not just because I took most of them either. The fish were everywhere and Christine kept feeding them hot dogs. Theres a video of that at the bottom, you can see just how swarming these fish were.
Macro Kick
I got a neat little adapter that allows me to put a lens on the camera backwards which allows me to take these extreme macro shots. So if your wondering why so many of the recent pictures are bugs and the like thats why. Also there is no shortage of bugs on Guam. Or heat. Or sun. Did I mention heat and sun?
And a bonus moon picture, Full Moon from tonight
Friday, June 29, 2007
More Photos
I keep putting up spider pictures for Bubba but he doesn't seem to comment on them?
Christine went snorkeling again today. The fish were everywhere! She said they were even nibbling on her looking for food. We should be going snorkeling together in the same spot tomorrow so expect more fish!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Moon Saturn and Venus
Tonight the Moon, Saturn and Venus were all lined up.
I took a few pictures and while its somewhat hard to tell, you can definitely make out three totally separate celestial bodies.
Here you go:
(It's hard to see with just the thumbnails below, but if you click on the picture it will display a larger version and its easier to make all three out)
I took a few pictures and while its somewhat hard to tell, you can definitely make out three totally separate celestial bodies.
Here you go:
(It's hard to see with just the thumbnails below, but if you click on the picture it will display a larger version and its easier to make all three out)
Monday, June 18, 2007
Pictures
These are some random pictures I have not got around to posting yet.
This is a turtle Christine saw on her snorkel outing.
This is a turtle Christine saw on her snorkel outing.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
New Back Yard
Well they have begun construction on a new playground set in our backyard.
This is what the backyard used to look like:
It now looks like this:
Which in turn causes my truck to look like this:
I just washed it Sunday!
This isn't the greatest picture, but look what Christine did. She made her own little green house and grew these. Hopefully we can transplant these to our garden soon.
This is what the backyard used to look like:
It now looks like this:
Which in turn causes my truck to look like this:I just washed it Sunday!
This isn't the greatest picture, but look what Christine did. She made her own little green house and grew these. Hopefully we can transplant these to our garden soon.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Boonie Stomp
We went on our first official Boonie Stomp, which is the local term for hiking.
We had an actual guide and hiked through the wilderness (which was mostly red mud and burnt shrubs) to a swimmin' hole, complete with rope swing.
It was about a 30 minute hike to the waterin' hole (and about a 45 minute to hour hike back, back was uphill). The hike down there wasn't too terrible, as it was downhill, but even walking downhill for a long time can be uncomfortable.
This is an example of the road we walked:
Once we got there and set up our little sitting area, Christine immediately got in the water. It was hot, in the 90's. Once in the water, she swam directly to the rope swing and swung off.
I did too, but my back was to the camera so here is a picture of me in my cool new Indy hat:
While we were swimming and jumping and such our tour guide was fishing. Yup, just sitting on the ledge of a huge rock. All he had was one piece of fishing line (not even a spool, just a 20 foot long piece of line) a hook and some bubblegum. About ten minutes later he caught one. He ended up catching around three but only kept two.
Thats one of them, I forget what he called it. When we were watching him pull the fish out of the water we saw an eel. He said it was a fresh water eel, it was about a foot long. It didn't hang around long enough for us to get a picture though.
On the other side of the pond, the side with the rope swing, was a running creek, almost waterfall esque. Christine and I swam over there and sat in the running water. We even saw a crawdad over there too. This is us sitting in the creek.
Then I went on a little photo adventure, looking for creatures. First I came across a frog that was about the size of your thumb, no longer than an inch and a half. He was very camouflaged against the rocks, but you can see him here:
Next I saw this red dragon fly. It was also no longer than an inch, and was hovering all around me. Finally it set down on a leaf near me and I was able to get some decent pictures. I don't have a special macro (close up) lens, so I had to get really close to him. I was about two to three inches away when I took these. I couldn't believe he sat there for so long and didn't just fly away.
If you click on the picture below you can see it larger. Look at his lips, it looks like he has collagen or halloween wax lips. But he did smile for the picture.
These are mud daubers (click here for more info). They are called that because they buzz around, sip water and use that water to build mud huts usually in the shape of organ pipes to house their larvae in. You can see them flying around with neon green caterpillar like creatures that they place into the mud huts. Then they seal it up and take off, leaving the caterpillars to gestate and turn into mud daubers (guess you don't really need to click on that link now that I told you all you need to know).
They haven't hurt us yet but they do look quite fierce.
Next I stumbled upon a spider eating a wasp!!!!! I didn't know spiders could eat wasps, but here he is. Again click on the pictures to see them larger and in more detail.
Lastly here are some good overall pictures of the area we were in. If you didn't already know you would have never guessed this is Guam. We were probably about twenty miles from the coast and at several points on the hike we could see the ocean.
We had an actual guide and hiked through the wilderness (which was mostly red mud and burnt shrubs) to a swimmin' hole, complete with rope swing.
It was about a 30 minute hike to the waterin' hole (and about a 45 minute to hour hike back, back was uphill). The hike down there wasn't too terrible, as it was downhill, but even walking downhill for a long time can be uncomfortable.
This is an example of the road we walked:
Once we got there and set up our little sitting area, Christine immediately got in the water. It was hot, in the 90's. Once in the water, she swam directly to the rope swing and swung off. 
I did too, but my back was to the camera so here is a picture of me in my cool new Indy hat:
While we were swimming and jumping and such our tour guide was fishing. Yup, just sitting on the ledge of a huge rock. All he had was one piece of fishing line (not even a spool, just a 20 foot long piece of line) a hook and some bubblegum. About ten minutes later he caught one. He ended up catching around three but only kept two.
Thats one of them, I forget what he called it. When we were watching him pull the fish out of the water we saw an eel. He said it was a fresh water eel, it was about a foot long. It didn't hang around long enough for us to get a picture though.On the other side of the pond, the side with the rope swing, was a running creek, almost waterfall esque. Christine and I swam over there and sat in the running water. We even saw a crawdad over there too. This is us sitting in the creek.
Then I went on a little photo adventure, looking for creatures. First I came across a frog that was about the size of your thumb, no longer than an inch and a half. He was very camouflaged against the rocks, but you can see him here:
Next I saw this red dragon fly. It was also no longer than an inch, and was hovering all around me. Finally it set down on a leaf near me and I was able to get some decent pictures. I don't have a special macro (close up) lens, so I had to get really close to him. I was about two to three inches away when I took these. I couldn't believe he sat there for so long and didn't just fly away.
If you click on the picture below you can see it larger. Look at his lips, it looks like he has collagen or halloween wax lips. But he did smile for the picture.
These are mud daubers (click here for more info). They are called that because they buzz around, sip water and use that water to build mud huts usually in the shape of organ pipes to house their larvae in. You can see them flying around with neon green caterpillar like creatures that they place into the mud huts. Then they seal it up and take off, leaving the caterpillars to gestate and turn into mud daubers (guess you don't really need to click on that link now that I told you all you need to know). 
They haven't hurt us yet but they do look quite fierce. Next I stumbled upon a spider eating a wasp!!!!! I didn't know spiders could eat wasps, but here he is. Again click on the pictures to see them larger and in more detail.
Lastly here are some good overall pictures of the area we were in. If you didn't already know you would have never guessed this is Guam. We were probably about twenty miles from the coast and at several points on the hike we could see the ocean.
