Just pics

Hello!

This week has been crazy! I've been to a few job interviews, classes, meetings and interviews for my thesis, lots and lots of reading and writing, and it's not over yet!

As I can't write much today, I decided to post the last of the Guayaquil pics, I'm not familiar with any of the bugs, dragonflies, moths, but will try to find out more about them later. Click on them to enlarge the pics, you know my camera is not the best (yeah yeah blame the camera... haha)

Hope you enjoy the pics, will have more time to post and keep up with blog reading this weekend.

Pirates and flowers

A pirate ship in Guayaquil? Well, kind of... It's supposed to be a replica of Henry Morgan's ship, and although the city was attacked by pirates in the past, Morgan was not one of the attackers!
We got in it at night, we watched the city at night from the Guayas river, there was an open bar and music... you know, the pirate's life, hahaha


Walking was great, we found many beautiful parks and gardens, huge colourful flowers or tiny and delicate, that made us feel so nice!


Some bugs were flying around or resting on leaves or flower petals... But those are for the next post ;)


Some of the flowers reminded me of my grandma's garden when I was a kid, good memories came back and made my smile even bigger...


... Until I felt someone was staring at me, I turned around and found no bird, no bug, no person, but this...


Can you see the face or is it just my paranoia??? hahaha

Iguana 'watching'... in a public plaza!

Hi there! Back in Lima now! My first post about the trip to Guayaquil has to do with a park in the middle of the city...

Parque Seminario, also known as 'Parque de las Iguanas' is a few metres across from Guayaquil's Cathedral.

It is a small park with a few trees and possibly a couple hundred of iguanas!


Some of them come down the trees at around noon and go back up when the sun sets...


They share the park with some birds, mostly pigeons, that look strange while walking around the iguanas... I think some pigeons might want to 'change flocks', as the long tailed fellows get more attention (and food) from the visitors.


All sizes and colours: from one to five feet long, from bright green to dark brown, they walk around, lay quiet on the stone paths or grass, climb up the trees...


They eat celery and lettuce that some people bring for them, a couple fight over the same piece making sounds and trying to bite each other...


After 'lunch' some of them go up again and stay on the branches above people's heads, we stood up in the sun, then saw a few iguanas on the top peeing!, quite funny to see people jumping around trying to avoid the 'attack'...


I hope you liked this post, we had a lot of fun watching these guys and some others that I'll upload and talk about in the following days :)

De camino a Guayaquil, ¡Ecuador!

Good things can come out of bad ones and this is the proof.

A stressing family matter ended up with a trip to Guayaquil (for Tommy and Mel) for this weekend! (Long story that might be shared in the future)

We'll be out from the 14th to the 18th, and although we'll have a hard time due to the lack of money, we'll try to make our best to enjoy the trip.

We can't afford moving out of Guayaquil, our budget is LIMITED, so, it will be a challenge!

I know that some of the birder bloggers that visit me every now and then have been to Ecuador in the past, so, this is also a challenge for them: Help me with information on places that we could visit to find birds, without leaving the city or if so, without spending a lot of money!

(I'm nervous and excited at the same time!)