Greetings from the middle of the world (pics)

[av8rdave]

Right on the line:



No mosquitos here, but there are other pests:



Edited for messing up the links

[bikebloke]

1. Careful!

The rotation of the northern and southern hemispheres could rip you in two if you straddle the line. 'strooth!

:evilgrin:

[av8rdave]

21. Damn near did!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

2. You lucky bastid

Hope you are having the time of your life! Check the sheets before you get into bed though :evilgrin:

[av8rdave]

3. Not to worry...the hotel is very nice

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear av8rdave!

Cool pics!

Heh, I was getting latitude and longitude mixed up!:blush:

Glad you're having fun, sweetie!

:hi:

[av8rdave]

22. Not bad for being at work

Tomorrow, the copilot and I are going to explore the old historic part of Quito. Should be fun!

[NightWatcher]

5. did you do the thing with the egg?

I know there's a thing with an egg at the equator....




j/k enjoy the guinea pig and report back, I hear (or see from Discovery Channel) that it's a delicacy

[av8rdave]

8. Ah yes, the egg...

[NightWatcher]

9. kewl

[NewJeffCT]

6. and, I notice the sign is in English

Or, are there multiple signs and you stood next to the English one?

Great picture, though. Thanks for sharing.

[av8rdave]

17. It's not perfect English, but yes, they tried to have multilingual signs

[MrScorpio]

7. That's one of my Equadorian cousins

He's cool.

[Bucky]

10. You should hold your thumb right next to that for a good size comparison.

[ZombieHorde]

15. Those scorpions are adult hand sized.

You can buy them in many pet stores.

[av8rdave]

20. Actually, that scorpion was about 3/4" long

I have a great macro setting on my camera.

[ZombieHorde]

23. Wow, the ones in the pet store look just like that, except they are very large.

Their (large pet store type) poison is about as strong as a bee's poison.

[applegrove]

11. Free Lobster Everywhere Oh My - How Nice!!!

[Skittles]

12. I WILL KICK SOME SCORPION ASS

:scared:

[av8rdave]

18. I was tempted to

with the heel of my shoe, but then I thought better of it. The little guy did eat a lot of ants, after all.

[ZombieHorde]

13. My wife and I owned scorpions which looked just like those.

They were difficult for me to handle.

[Aristus]

14. Was it the real equator? I saw on Samantha Brown's show a while back that they miscalculated

the equator's location years and years ago. They put up the tourist access spots and everything, and then realized they made a mistake, and discovered that the real equator was several hundred yards from the calculated position. Apparently, they never took down the misplaced tourist spots, and people still visit them, thinking they are at the actual equator. Were you at the right equator? B-)

[av8rdave]

16. Actually, that is the real equator.

There is a huge monument erected about 300 yards away that is what was thought was the equator for many years. As it turned out, the measurements of the Incans were spot on after all!

[MilesColtrane]

19. Wow!

Traveling at 1,050 miles per hour and your hair isn't even mussed.

[Orsino]

24. Yeah, but is that 0 degrees north or south? n/t