This morning we visited North Seymour Island and had another dry landing, but the climb was not nearly as difficult as Prince Philip’s Steps on Genovesa. Here’s another picture of the Silver Origin’s rear dock. The Zodiacs use power to stay pushed against the dock and each passenger is helped aboard. Then it’s the short trip to the island of the day.
Here’s an example of an “Adventurous” trail, straight thru the two black and white sticks. Yep, it’s all rocks.
Right away we spotted the last of the Galapagos Boobies, the Blue-Footed Booby.
I found a great example of the ground version of a Booby nest. Since they nest in the open, there is no protection from the sun. The birds sit facing away from the sun and rotate with the sun as the hours pass. So, there is a kind of bird-produced sun-dial. And it’s made out of exactly what you think. The birds project their feces in all directions. At least it makes it easy to find their nests.
We got really lucky and saw one blue-footed booby feeding its chick.
We saw land lizards for the first time. The Land Iguana was just laid out under a tree, warming itself as it shed its skin. We spotted another one on the rocks farther away.
We also saw many Lava Lizards. Seems they are the type that drop their tails if needed to escape from a predator.
As we neared the Zodiac to return to the ship a young sea lion pup decided it was its time in the spotlight. Don’t worry, mom sea lion was dozing in the grass nearby.
Just we were casting off a Brown Pelican came by looking for handouts.
