fur seals | Carol King: drawing, painting, complaining

Croatian Market – Arches 140# coldpress

I’ve been away for a little while. The Husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary with a trip to the Galapagos. (I was a child bride…LOL) Our anniversary isn’t until October, but we decided February would be a better time to be in South America. The water was calmer and the critters were moving and mating. We spent approximately 7 days on a 90 foot yacht. (Yate in Spanish) I kept telling everyone I was on a 20 foot yacht until the Husband finally corrected me. He told me a 20 foot yacht is called a rowboat. Ok, I was never good at math.

We had a wonderful, magical time. The Galapagos is one of those “trip of a lifetime” places! We hiked each day, most times twice a day, and also snorkeled each day. We saw giant tortoises and green sea turtles, land iguanas, marine iguanas, fur seals, sea lions, all sorts of fish, sharks and even a few Orcas. I don’t know much about birds but we did hear about the 14 different species of finches in the Galapagos. (I drifted when the naturalist was talking about them so I can’t tell you much.) I prefer my birds to have blue feet like the blue footed boobies or big red balloons under their beaks like the male mating frigate birds.

The painting above is a work in progress from a Croatian Market from a trip two years ago. (It seems like yesterday.) The woman reminds me of some of the older women in my family and the fruits and vegetables were gorgeous, yummy and plentiful. I will go back and put in some darks in the spaces between the fruit and maybe delineate her face a little more.

More to come about the Galapagos, but in the meantime here are some photos and a link to my friend’s website who was with us on the trip.

Blue footed booby doing a mating dance