Genovesa

June 20 – David. Today we visited Genovesa Island where frigate birds and red-footed boobies nest.  The male Great Frigate’s were interesting with their red sacks under their beaks puffed out trying to attract a mate.  We even found a happy couple nesting in a tree.  She had her head resting against his red pillow.  It was so romantic.  We were also introduced to the Galapagos Sea Lion.  It has a longer snout than the Galapagos Fur Seal (really a sea lion) which we saw later.  We later went snorkeling in search of hammerhead sharks and while we saw sharks on our way to the snorkel site we did not see any while snorkeling.  We finished the day walking up a steep narrow path up a cliff after disembarking from zodiac on what is referred to as a dry landing and saw Nazca Boobies and the Galapagos Owl hunting small birds called Storm-Petrels.  I need to explain the two different types of landings.  Dry means we are not supposed to get wet while wet means we wade ashore.  Our means of transport to the beach is zodiac.