The next day we went for a walk on Santa Fe Island. It is not a very high island but it was very hot. Santa Fe has many mature prickly cacti, some a hundred years old, as they don’t have many predators eating them – apart from a few iguanas.
There were many sea lions on the beach – we encountered them on all our landings.
We also saw the Galapagos hawk and several mocking birds.
We saw Santa Fe land iguanas, both male and female – the male being the larger. As they walked along, they clicked their heads.
They even walked between us as we stood there, and watched us as we watched them eating.
We did some more snorkelling at Santa Fe, then went for a walk round Santa Cruz Sur – this time it was a dry landing. Here were land iguanas and Nasca boobies.
Again the landscape was different.
There were several Nazca boobies along the cliff.
Swallow-tailed gulls had made their nest there are were rearing their young.
There were lava lizards and land iguanas here as well.
We saw a land iguana standing on its hind legs to reach and eat a prickly pear cactus.
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