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Monday Feb 11, 2013 Santa Cruz, Galapagos



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Monday February 11/13  
Another day on Santa Cruz Island and Tortuga Bay in the GALAPAGOS.  
Note that the Marine Iguana photos have been saturated to show the multi-coloured chameleon-type skin.
Thanks again to Google for completely fouling up the order of my upload.
That was today's excitement,   Cheers, Al 



We are staying at the top point of the bottom green section

Many colourful crabs here

This is the Puerto Ayora harbour

This sign is at the start of the long path

A mockingbird

Appears to be a fault line here

Dew on a cactus

Cactus grows into a tree to get water and light

Minnie Cactus?

Part of the long path to Tortuga Bay

One of the many varieties of Darwin's finches 

Can you find 12 iguanas??

They like to sun themselves on the volcanic rock

They seem to have a chameleon-type skin

Crabs seem to keep the iguanas company

They are ugly, yet pretty, but harmless

Stretching out for a tan

i think there are 11 in this shot

along with the nearby crabs

I love the shore birds too

Giving his best smile

Now his lovely profile

Pals forever.  They huddle to maintain their temperatures.

Another handsome devil.

These guys skitter about all along the beaches

And what beautiful beaches!!

They seem to find something to eat in the tidal leftovers

A little piece of heaven for sure

Heron and an orange crab

One of my favorite birds

Always vigilant

waiting for fish to come by

moving about on land and sea

Pelican gets a high vantage point

Also one of my favourite birds

Drying his wings a little

Patience is a virtue

They are not very graceful on take-off

He's been doing some grooming so things are out of place

Shocked that he would land in a tree with his big webbed feet!

Magnificent colours to adapt to any environment

Pelicans are so very graceful in flight though

More heat-seekers

A smaller bay around the corner

a crab has dug himself a hole

then out he came, pink as can be

They can really scoot along with all those legs

Waiting near the mangrove which drops branches to form trunks

Quite the beak on this guy

Finches are not very afraid of people

My first blue-footed booby, but he is sitting down

This guy landed on Marg's backpack

The marine iguanas are everywhere

The crowd is starting to come to the beach

This fellow is fast asleep

More different colours

Can you see all the iguanas in front of the pool?

Following a shore bird

The crowd is getting bigger

They come to enjoy the sun and the surf

Artsy-fartsy shot of a leaf in the sand

A pelican on the fly

And the crowd keeps coming

Another pelican shot

Bella is way behind the iguana

Isn't he pretty?

Resting in the sun

OK, I'll move

Tortuga Bay is just gorgeous

On the move

What a beautiful place

This little guy is a Lava Lizard

Where the paths of iguanas crossed

Flowering cactus

Another lovely bay

Gorgeous hibiscus

Two surfer dudes

Local girl

and her sister

Taking over the dock again

They have squatters' rights or something

Traveling by water taxi

Many different boats in the harbour

These guys can really climb the walls!

Wood carving competition near the dock

Al, Bella, Marg, Maxine, Barry, and Stu

We are still in the round island in the middle

Just being crabby today