This is Jiovanna, one of the naturalists on the ship, and our guide for our first Zodaic ride to the ship:

Here are Dwight and Simon, a great couple from Maryland, with whom we often ate and traveled:
Our stateroom:
Another view (with dad):
A dry landing on North Seymour with another zodiac in the background (but not our cruise ship behind them):

These are great frigate birds in flight. To me, they always slightly resembled pterodactyls:

A pair of swallow-tailed gulls:

A sea lion pup (they smell bad, by the way):

This was our first look at a land iguana:


This is a pair of male great frigate birds watching over a chick. The male on the left has puffed out his chest in a courtship display for a nearby female:

We came across a whole bunch of great frigate birds nesting in trees:
Here's a famous blue-footed boobie:

And here are some shots of a male blue-footed boobie doing his courtship display:


And here is a male blue-footed boobie protecting his egg:

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