Today was special for all of us. Genovesa Island showed its best with a blooming of baby chicks everywhere we looked. There were so many juvenile red-footed boobies that one of them even had a collision with a staff member. Apparently the bird had an argument with another bird and by the time he turned its head to the front it was too late. The booby recovered its step quite well, although its speech took a little longer. The naturalist was in the same condition.
The evening was most expected by everybody, as we knew about the first lunar eclipse to take place in this area of the world in many years. Such eclipses take place, as we know from local legend, when a galactic "mola mola" fish makes its way between the sun and the moon.
Full moon was at its high until nine o'clock, just at the end of our delicious barbecue on the Teak Deck, when the penumbra of the Earth started to switch it off. By ten, the moon had lost all its glamour as second contact proceeded and the umbra made the moon disappear. The stars by then were just unbelievable!
