La Loberia
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 11 Apr 2013 22:37
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Our Visit to La
Loberia
We took a taxi to La Loberia, a beach beyond the airport. We expected to see
sea lions as we do everywhere.
These little men jump on the sea lions
to pick off the flies, useful friends.
Marine
iguanas, rocks and sea – no bets there then. So we followed the track
beyond the beach and scrambled over the rocks for over an hour to see what we
could find.
En route the surf was wild and beautiful and worthy
of its own blog.
As we neared the cliffs we could see and hear the screeching birds.
When we got to
the top we were above the soaring sea
birds.
Our first
Swallow-tailed Gull. The only nocturnal gull hunter –
huge eyes to find baby squid and fish. These gulls are endemic to the islands,
they breed in a nine to ten month cycle and are found in large
colonies.
Time to catch some Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Delicate patterning on this little
chap.
High on the
cliff face gulls and boobies, down in the battering
surf, sea turtles.
Tropicbirds.
Way up here we find a tiny fellow.
My brave captain, dry mouthed, unable to speak but still
able to smile.
Much as we
having fun, time to get going, seeing so much, including
little one leg.
We had just
over an hour to get back to the yellow
arrow.
What was this little
chap watching so intently
Lunch
Our last
chap of the day before we fell thankfully into the waiting
taxi.
ALL IN ALL NATURE AT ITS VERY
BEST
WOULDN’T HAVE MISSED IT FOR THE WORLD
INCLUDING THE CLIFF EDGE
YES, IT WAS WORTH IT BUT NOT TO BE
REPEATED
TILL THE NEXT TIME,
SWEETIE
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm |