Mating Frenzy!
On North Seymour Island, we came upon a colony of the Magnificent frigatebirds. Like voyeurs, we watched as they performed their rather comical and noisy mating rituals. These are the birds we see performing their aerial acrobatics from our boat each day, threatening our clean laundry hung out to dry on the top deck. Basically, […]
Life and Death
It is always difficult to stand by and watch injured or starving animals suffer in a natural environment. Like most other wildlife parks, the Galapagos National Park has a strict policy of non-interference except when trying to save critically endangered animals and plants from extinction (as is the case with all the remaining giant tortoise […]
If It’s Saturday, It Must Be Iguana Day
Everything you read about the abundant and unafraid wildlife on the Galápagos Islands is true. I didn’t really “get it” until our first day when we visited Santa Fe Island. Motoring up to the beach for our first wet landing, we were surrounded by barking, frolicking Galápagos sea lions. They were everywhere—some sleeping on the […]
