Our first island excursion was a 90 min trek (a bit rocky, but slow so not difficult) with a nature guide to see South Plaza island and it's inhabitants.
We were greeted at the dock by masses of Sally Lightfoot crabs. The red ones are mature and they are cannibals so the immature crabs are dark black just like the rocks they live in to provide some camouflage.
There are sea lions everywhere - this one was playing with a Sally Lightfoot - they don't eat them, but the guide said this area was the 'kindergarten' so they were playing.
A lava gull sitting serenely. This was just the first tiny taste of our Galapagos bird exeperience.
This is one species of the prickly pear cactus that exists on a number of the islands. If you look closely, there is a land iguana camped out at the base. They tend to adopt a cactus and then wait patiently under them for the fruit and flowers to fall off for dinner.
Here's a better close up of another land iguana calmly hanging out in the middle of our path.
The landscape is so different and really pretty in it's own special way.
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