Our last beach visit for a snorkel after a month in the Galápagos, here on San Cristóbal.
It was a really fun month, and I've got a bunch of video I plan to edit together. While we were here I never got to the editing side of things. You're just living it. So now I've got a lot of great footage to sort through.
But I wanted to share this one completely unedited.
All month I was trying to get a sea lion on video underwater. Got plenty of them on the beach. A few times they swam right past me and I couldn't get my camera out fast enough. Once I caught one way off in the distance, but you could barely see it.
By the end I'd kind of stopped trying. On this last snorkel day I was filming a huge school of fish in a cove, thousands and thousands of little fish everywhere, just swimming through the school and them dodging me.. i was pleased with catching this and then out of the fog of the thousands of fish a sea lion showed up, feeding and swirling around me. Next thing I know there were two of them. I was just trying to keep them in frame.
At one point one came right up to the camera and looked straight at me. I'll admit, I got a little scared.
The other neat part: underwater I couldn't hear a thing, just water in my ears. But the camera picked up the sea lions chirping at each other. My ears missed it. The video didn't.
More videos coming soon. For now, I hope you enjoy my little underwater camera dance with a couple of sea lions.
