After lunch, we motored to Rabida Island, the Red Island. Red cinder beaches, ranging from mud-sized to one inch cinders. Red cliffs; red hillsides. There's a small brackish pond behind the beach with a colony of bachelor Galapagos Sea Lions wallowing in red mud. The trail then climbs a ridge to a cliff overlooking Rocky Cove, a beautiful sight in the late afternoon light. Decent birding, with excellent views of a Common Cactus Finch in a cactus forest.
The memorable thing about Rabida is the red color in the late afternoon twilight. The Palos Santos trees were starting to green up from the rain, creating a half-surreal pairing of red and green.
Saw my first Brown Pelican nest in the trees behind the brackish ponds.
Bull Galapagos Sea Lion
Rabida Island
Rabida Beach and Galapagos Sea Lion Harem
Rabida Island
Cactus Trees
Rabida Island
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Birds
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Others
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| Small Ground Finch Wandering Tattler Ruddy Turnstone Large Ground Finch Common Cactus Finch Galapagos Penguin Brown Pelican Brown Noddy Blue-footed Booby Masked Booby Semi-palmated Plover Yellow Warbler Great Frigatebird Galapagos Mockingbird |
Lava Lizard Marine Iguana Galapagos Sea Lion Sally Lightfoot Crab |