To celebrate World Turtle Day (and here I'm using the word turtle broadly to mean all Testudines/Chelonia), here are some photos of sea turtles I took while snorkelling around León Dormido and Giant Galápagos tortoises on Santa Cruz, both in the Galápagos Islands. Plus a drawing that I don't appear to ever have finished... Drawing turtle wrinkles is really boring.
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Chillin' © X O'Reilly, 2013 |
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Oops, that's what that noise was... © X O'Reilly, 2013 |
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Hanging out with the galápagos – they couldn't even see me from that angle © A Bertolotti, 2013 |
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Sea turtle I drew at the bus terminal in Quito on my way back to the Amazon from the Galápagos. © X O'Reilly, 2013 |
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