14 Nov 2012
Yareta (Azorella compacta)
This enormous and partially dying yareta (Azorella compacta) is growing by one of many incredibly beautiful rock outcrops here called Valle de las Rocas, or…
14 Nov 2012
Rock Valley (Valle de las Rocas) & Southern viscacha (Lagidium viscacia)
In a garden of rock formations resembling many different animals I was baffled to suddenly stand in front of this Viscacha monitoring my movements. It's like…
14 Nov 2012
Rock Valley (Valle de las Rocas)
One of the many "sculptures" in this amazing place, that seemed without any kind of face or specific form. Still I think there is a wolf-like head on the top…
14 Nov 2012
Rock Valley (Valle de las Rocas)
Yet another animal, and to me perhaps a dolphin's face. Later in the day or even under the starry sky it might look like another creature. A different angle…
14 Nov 2012
Rock Valley (Valle de las Rocas)
Most are unable to see nature's never ending miracles - from the smallest of scales to the large. They stand amidst it all but are filled with thoughts of the…
14 Nov 2012
Rock Valley (Valle de las Rocas)
Many kilometres before I got to here, I noticed a very unusual rock formation in the landscape. Like a fissure from which Earth has had time to have fun and be…
12 Jul 2010
Polynesian Heliotrope (Heliotropium anomalum)
Polynesian Heliotrope (Heliotropium anomalum) is native to the Anaa atoll. Native range is Pacific. -17.3981145.478411
11 Jul 2010
My life as a dog on Anaa
My host had two dogs, and such harmonoius dogs! Being a total stranger I would suspect a greeting of loud barks and jumping to and fro. Not these dogs!…
11 Jul 2010
Anaa shell desert
Some areas the shelldunes stretched far and wide, and it resembled a desert more than an atoll. The enormity of shells deposited is is a grand display of how…
11 Jul 2010
Anaa shell dunes
In the lagoon there are huge deposits of shells in formations similar to what you see in the snowy and windswept mountains in winter. The different ages of…