Ecuador
Other web pages showing our trip
to South
America can be found here
Colombia, Panama
Canal, Ecuador,
Peru, Arica
Chile, LaSerena Chile, Valparaiso
and Santiago
Chile, The
rest of
the trip, and South
American
Flowers
A view of the port of
Manta in Ecuador
From our ship we could
see a fishing
boat unloading its catch and some pelicans waiting for anything that
may be dropped.
Several of our group
toured in the
city where they saw artifacts that had been discovered here.
At other stops they saw
buttons and
Panama hats being made.
The original Panama hats
and still
the best ones come from Ecuador.
Other sights.
We took a bus to Agua
Blanca.
A little of what we saw
along the way.
This is a balsa tree.
We stopped at this home.
Where we were given a
demonstration
of the process of extracting the fiber from which hats and other
handicrafts are made.
The little village of
Agua Blanca
inside
Machalilla National Park.
It is said to be Ecuador’s
most important archeological site.
It has been occupied
since the Inca
era.
I found some kids and we
had fun with
string figures.
A neat little
vehicle. I bet it
gets great gas mileage.
There was a small museum
where we saw
some artifacts from excavations here.
Most of the items that have been found have been taken to museums in Guayaquil
and Quito.
Then we
started on a walk
where we
were shown some burial pots that were excavated after they had been
exposed along a washout.
Here is the foundation
of a building
that was probably built thousands of years ago.
A termite nest, an
iguana, and a
candelabra cactus about 30 feet tall.
A few of the birds we
saw.
The first is a vermilion
flycatcher.
The last was identified as a Snowy Egret
by Mary Callahan.
She said "You can tell by it's yellow feet - it's nickname is "Golden
Slippers." "
The other three are
currently
unidentified.
More of what we saw as
we drove along.
We had lunch at the
seashore.
While we were there we
saw frigate
birds and pelicans.
Three varieties of crabs.
We rescued the one in
the middle from
a tangle of fishing line.
The pattern of little balls of sand was probably the creation of
another crab, though we never saw it.
Other web pages showing our trip to South America can be found here
Colombia, Panama Canal, Ecuador,
Peru, Arica Chile, LaSerena Chile,
Valparaiso
and Santiago
Chile, The
rest of
the trip, and South
American
Flowers
We want to thank our friends from the trip Fran and Frank,
Esther
and
Michael, Bill and Lorraine for sharing their photos with us and for you.
See
other places we have visited here.
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to our Personal
home page
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page
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to our Science
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Nancy
and
Alan