While at San Cristobal Island, Ed and I did a boat trip to Kicker Rock, south of the island - one of the rare organized tours that we'd been on. It is a magnificent rock structure split in two with a narrow channel. There is an abundance of marine and bird species and the tour included snorkeling at Kicker Rock and a couple of other locations nearby. Rays, sharks, turtles, sea lions and fish of many varieties cavorted with the humans in the water. One bird that catches a lot of attention is the blue footed booby, whose feet are indeed a bright blue. They are a Galapagos icon featured on the usual tourist junk such as t-shirts, hats, handbags, postcards and wood carvings.
One of the stops on this tour was a beach vaunted for its beauty but infested with horse flies waiting for anyone willing to go ashore. Most of the tour group did and were duly bitten.
Kicker Rock ...from a distance
Channel at Kicker Rock
Blue footed boobies
Other side of Kicker Rock channel
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