Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

The walrus utilizes their tusks as ice picks when they haul themselves up onto an ice float, and sometimes they might break as is the case with this one. This…


Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

These clumsy and fat mammals on land are amazingly fast and agile in the ocean! This encounter by the Seven Islands (Sjuøyane), Svalbard is from a zodiac, and…


Barnadesia arborea

Barnadesia arborea

The leaves are leathery, pointy, thick and shiny. Native range is Ecuador and Peru. Altitude 3450 metres.


Barnadesia arborea

Barnadesia arborea

This shrub was growing close to the dirt road leading deeper into Cayambe Coca and was growing on private grounds where cows were grazing. Fortunately cows do…