Monday, August 07, 2006
Condor Man
Flight of the Condor is the name of the tour we are on. Regular readers will know that we have a habit of not seeing wildlife when we are supposed to. Lucky, to the joy of us, our travelling companions and hundreds of other tour groups we did see some Condors.They have a wing span of up to 3 metres and a standing height of up to 1 meters 40 cms. They soar on the thermals and you could feel the intake of breath from the crowd every time they flew by. Unfortunately we were not the only tour group there. We were joined by people shouting to family members (despite the `Please Be Silent´ notice) and people edging closer to the edge of the 1.2 km drop canyon (despite the ´Keep Away From The Edge´ notice.) After an hour most people left which gave the canyon back some of its awe and wonder and the condors were able to put on a private show just for us.
# posted by Rhodri @ 10:29 pm 
