This afternoon was truly a grand finale to a great trip. The coastal walk along the tidal areas of James Island was at its best due to the low tide and the beautiful weather. In the tidal pools, many species of shore birds were hunting for food, including oystercatchers, plovers, whimbrels, herons and turnstones. The scarlet Sally Lightfoot crabs were stuffing algae into their mouths, while the marine iguanas were just coming out from their feeding and resting along the shoreline, side by side with large colonies of Galapagos sea lions. These unlikely neighbours tolerate one another, though the seemingly unlimited patience of the iguanas is sorely tested by the playfulness of the sea lion pups, one of which kept catching an iguana by the tail! One of the sea lions, however, was definitely dreaming about a cruise on the Polaris, maybe to try somewhere more comfortable to sleep on than the pahoehoe lava flows!