Graptolite - Meets the Locals

00:53.76S 089:36..82W Puerto Baqerizo Moreno, Isla San Cristobal, 1st March

Today we got up close and personal with the local wildlife. A trip out to Kicker Rock had us swimming with sharks and turtles. On the way back we swam with sealions and marine iguana.

The sealions are probably the most fun. On the beach they are smelly, noisy and ungainly. But none of those things in the water. The beach near the anchorage is thick with sealions and given half a chance they climb up on the boats at anchor for a spot of sunbathing or sit behind the wheel and pretend to be sailing. The local boat-owners have to put barbed-wire up to keep them out of the cabins.

I can't think of much that is nice to say about marine iguana. We don't have much in common with them and conversation is difficult. It's probably because we mammals are so much further along with this evolution thing.
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