I slept well last night for the first time, but Peter did not feel well and has been feeling badly all day. He came out on the morning walk and the afternoon walk but was decidedly green. But what a morning. Fernandina Island. We saw 'iguana city'... hundreds of marine iguanas, spitting out salt through their noses. We also saw a sea lion that had just given a still birth to a pup and she was trying to get it to move. The afterbirth was attached and it was obvious the pup was born premature. Her grief was palpable. We also saw snakes, all different kinds of lava flows, and learned about the drift of this island, moving Eastward about 12 cm per year on it's tectonic plate.
Next, we (Peter did not do this.) did a deep water snorkel in clear water with visual overload. It was like being in an aquarium. We saw sea turtles and marine iguanas feeding on the sea floor, sea lions cavorting around us, a rock scorpion fish, thousands of small 'aquarium' fish, and cormorants diving next to us and feeding on the fish.
Isabel's Island was the afternoon walk searching for the giant land tortoise, for which we found about 5 medium size tortoises.
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