Tuesday was an active day for the flightless cormorants on Isabela and Fernandina Islands. A pair performed their mating ritual just feet away from our Zodiacs, s
wimming in circles, occasionally rising out of the water. Later in the day several pairs lined the shoreline preening and drying their essentially useless wings.
Pacific green sea turtles feed in the cove we snorkeled in that day. It is always a treat to be around SO MANY of them. Of course there are also the resident penguins, sea lions, marine iguanas, fish, cormorants, and diving boobies to demand some of your attention here as well.
As I was photographing a blue-footed booby taking off from the water surface after coming up from a dive, a sea lion popped its head up, one of those serendipitous moments captured in an image.
