Hood Island
We have sailed from the province capital, the Island of San Cristobal, toward Hood Island, one of the oldest and most wildlife-rich islands in this Archipelago. This island is also known as Española; actually, that’s its official name since 1892. Here we saw hundreds of blue-footed boobies doing all kinds of things, from courtship dance to feeding their babies. There were blue-footed booby eggs, blue-footed booby hatchlings and blue-footed booby chicks. Our new friend, “Twisted Beak,” is still growing healthy along the trail of Punta Suarez. By now it is about four weeks old, and the parents are still taking good care of it. There were also many albatrosses, both in flight and on land, and Nazca boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and marine iguanas. Sea lions were one of the favorites, not only in the morning, but in our afternoon outing as well. There were many on the beach having their long Sunday siesta, sleeping on sand castles made by the kids. It was a wonderful day, but if I had to choose my favorite animal of today, I would choose the blue-footed boobies; they delighted us with their songs and different behaviors.
We have sailed from the province capital, the Island of San Cristobal, toward Hood Island, one of the oldest and most wildlife-rich islands in this Archipelago. This island is also known as Española; actually, that’s its official name since 1892. Here we saw hundreds of blue-footed boobies doing all kinds of things, from courtship dance to feeding their babies. There were blue-footed booby eggs, blue-footed booby hatchlings and blue-footed booby chicks. Our new friend, “Twisted Beak,” is still growing healthy along the trail of Punta Suarez. By now it is about four weeks old, and the parents are still taking good care of it. There were also many albatrosses, both in flight and on land, and Nazca boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and marine iguanas. Sea lions were one of the favorites, not only in the morning, but in our afternoon outing as well. There were many on the beach having their long Sunday siesta, sleeping on sand castles made by the kids. It was a wonderful day, but if I had to choose my favorite animal of today, I would choose the blue-footed boobies; they delighted us with their songs and different behaviors.
