Our route
Sailing Yacht Sagitta
Sea Lions are so playful - we were right
beside these and they have no fear of humans.
Marine Iguana - the only iguanas in the
world that go into water
Swallow-tailed Gulls
Frigate Bird
Courting Blue Footed Boobie
Courting Frigate Bird (do you see a
theme . . .)
Blue Footed
Boobie
More Boobies
Iguanas trying to keep warm
Awwwww, kitchy, kitchy, coo
See how close you can get to the
animals
Some horsies and horselets
Egret riding on shell of tortoise
Vermillion Flycatcher riding on tortoise -
the tortoises stir up insects and the birds reap the benefits -
symbiosis lives
What a pretty
face
Them's honkin' big
tortoises,
not to mention, old.
Cactus
Finch on cactus
Lonesome George - the last of his kind in
the world
I wish this sea lion
would learn how to relax
Masked Boobie
Here we go a snorkeling, tra la la la, la
la
Under sail (this was the only
time
they hoisted the sails)
Although the terrain is different on each
island, many were as forbidding as this one. Needless to say, the were
formed by volcanos
Green sea
turtle
Another example of the landscape with
volcano in the background.
See the
Pink Ducks?
Another view of the Pink Ducks
Yellow Warbler
Pelican
Giant Blue Heron
Galapagos Penguin - the second smallest in
the world.
Sea Turtle nests
Skeleton of the dreaded Goatoise . . .
scary!
This guy was just happily ambling along
our path.
Land Iguana - them's
big
The crew would fold our towels in
different designs each day
It's
kinda hard to see but everyone had to step over a sea lion that was
lying on the steps.
Whale bones
Look at that beautiful smile
Flightless comorant - because they never
fly, their wings evolved into stubs - they 'fly' through the
water.
More iguanas - they're
everywhere (as are sea lions)
Galapagos Hawk
Fur seal - it's actually a sea lion but
are called seals for some unknown reason (at least unknown to
me).
The chef bake a cake for our final night
and put a broken heart on it because they were sorry to see us leave
because we were such a nice group. It was a marble cake with white
icing - my favorite.
Notice how the
cantaloupe and pineapple are carved into birds
Motley Crew
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