This watercolor of Timothy the tortoise was done by Hank Claycamp during a visit to the Galapagos Islands. The tortoises can live to be 150 years old and weigh 900 pounds.
Hi everybody, this is Hank Claycamp with my wife and co-traveler, The Divine Lady Linda, finishing up our last trip.
I showed you a picture of a rhino in Nepal. Then we went for one month in Rajistan, India, looking for tigers. We saw a lot of pugmarks (footprints) but no tigers. Oh, well! You win some, you lose some. India was pretty messy but kind of neat.
Our next stop was Perth and west Australia. Yep, not a whole lot going on there.
Then on to Tahiti and the island of Moorea. Capt. Cook on the Endeavor and Fletcher Christian and the crew of the bounty obviously enjoyed this place.
Our next stop was Rapa Nui, Easter Island, and now it got interesting. The statues were restored by the Japanese in the 1960s. The weather was pretty good. There was 17 miles of road so we drove around and around a zillion times.
We went to Hanga Roa, the capital (7,000 people) for the summer fest. Hoo boy, you better ask me later about that one.
Then on to Santiago, Chile, for a night, then up to Panama and down to Quito, Ecuador, for one night and on to the Galapagos Islands.
We stayed on three islands and saw marine iguanas, blue footed boobies and giant 150- year-old tortoises. Huge! Don’t let them step on your rubber boots because they can weigh was much as 900 pounds.
All three of the islands have hot areas around the beaches and wet jungles in the highlands, and that’s where the tortoises are. It makes it hard to have a farm cause they knock down the trees and eat the leaves.
Meanwhile, down on the beach are the marine iguanas looking like godzilla as trying to destroy Tokyo, if they could find it.
Anyhoo, after all this I printed this picture of Timothy the tortoise on the island of Is abella. I hope you like it.
