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Monday, February 18, 2013

It's only natural


Trusty volume of Darwin's most famous work in hand, Kerry van der Jagt takes a cruise to the Galapagos.
I'm inside the flooded caldera of an extinct volcano, swimming through a sea of silver. As I duck dive, the shoal of shimmering fish parts like a curtain, granting me temporary access to their mercurial world. Rivers of fish, including blue-chinned parrot fish and delicate Moorish idols, stream past. Below, a sea turtle flies like an eagle through the blue, while sea lions twist around me like fur-lined slinkies. Above, the sun is a disco ball, sending shards of light dancing across the ocean floor.

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