Floreana

It started as a cloudy morning, with warm rays of sunshine here and there (more there than here) and a water temperature of 70 degrees, that everybody appreciated and enjoyed as long as they didn't touch it. But they did. The reason was that nature called. Our snorkeling time today was the kind that makes history. Not human history, but sea lion history. As young babies turn, little by little, into juvenile (delinquents) more agility is displayed and daring figures are seen among the bubbles and the waves. At one time we had more than twenty sea lions surrounding a group of four or five humans! No danger, of course, but we could hear screams of excitement from both sides. A pelican chick joined in, and almost got the camera of one of our naturalists! Only the skill and deep knowledge of birds by our staff member avoided some extra shots from the tiny chick esophagus. As for the glass bottom boat observers, they got also their share…