Our last day in the Galapagos and I'd really been looking forward to visiting North Seymour as it has one of the largest Blue Footed Booby populations and also Frigate birds.
What I hadn't realised was that we would have only one hour here and we'd land at 6am; it doesn't get light much before that and typically we woke to heavy grey skies and drizzle - I was not best pleased.
Boobies mate for life and we saw lots of cute displays of affection; their famous foot waving, giving each other sticks as presents, displaying. Unfortunately I didn't get one single shot I was pleased with; poor lighting, rotten backgrounds etc. and some I just cocked up by clipping beaks or wings - but here's a selection
They were named Boobies by the Spanish (bobo = idiot) because they couldn't believe they didn't fly away. It's still the same, you can walk right by them and they just look at you.
Same with the frigate birds, they were too far away and the backgrounds too distracting.
I'm happy to have seen them, as we often say "it's not all about the photography" (or maybe we'll just have to go back and to the other half of the islands!)
Back on board for a 7am breakfast and then off the boat at 8 to get to the airport. Whilst waiting at the landing stage for our bus we saw the only wild land iguana of the trip - another one to tick off.
We said our goodbyes at the airport as we were only flying to Guayaquil whereas most of the others were going on to Quito.