We sailed south a bit until we reached Fernandina Island.  Last week we only had a Zodiac tour, but today is a two-hour hike along the coastline, bordering mangrove trees.  And right away there was an adolescent Galapagos Hawk surveying the beach.  After a week of keeping their distance, the hawks seem to get closer every day.  If this keeps up, in a few days one will be perched on my veranda.  Later we spotted a family group of three hawks at a distance.

Of course, there were heaping swarms of Marine Iguana.  For something new, our guide announced that they had never seen so many young iguanas.  They were around four inches (8 cm) long.  Perhaps a good sign for the iguana population?

As always, we had our share of glamorous Sea Lions.  It’s like they know what cameras are.  We woke one of them up as we approached, so he was covered with sand like when you wake up from a nap on the sofa and have lines on your face.

I finally got some better pictures of Sea Turtles.  The were right along the edge of the surf.  Our guide said they are within days of crawling up the sand to lay their eggs.  It was tempting to get a tent and set up here to record that.  But then I’d miss three great Silversea meals a day, and that’s not going to happen.

We got our first good view at the Galapagos Racer snake.  I’ve seen the occasional end of a tail as they move into the brush.  But this one was taking posing lessons from the sea lions.

And finally, another “far too red” image of a Sally Lightfoot crab. Some of them have a light blue under color.