We traveled to a number of islands and several locations on Santa Cruz Island. In each place there was tremendous beauty. For example, here is a swallow tailed gull.
Swallow Tailed Gull
I was very excited about the prospect of seeing blue-footed boobies. Even having seen a number, they still fascinate me. This is a picture of the first one we saw. He/she didn’t feel like cooperating with us, but at least didn’t fly away.
Uncooperative blue-footed booby
We saw this very beautiful bird.
Yellow Warbler (Canario Maria)
A frigate bird
Frigates are completely black as they fly through the sky. They look almost the way you would expect ominous black birds to look, except watching them fly was just beautiful. However, when they want to impress each other ( and particularly the female of the species) they can puff out a sac that is bright red (and actually, quite impressive.) Unfortunately, I didn’t get any good pictures, but you can see some magnificent pictures of magnificent frigates here.
I tried to identify the next bird with my handy-dandy identification guide. Unfortunately, the birds in my pictures are never in the same position as they are in the guide, and so I am just guessing that this incredibly gorgeous bird is a Royal Albatross.
Royal Albatross (?)
A land iguana
These guys always smile. I know that they must just be the happiest characters.
And no island trip is complete if one doesn’t have a chance to see sea lions. This time it was a nursing mother and her nursling.
Sea lion baby snack time
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