
Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus grapsus)

Baby Frigate Bird

Land Iguana

Red-footed Booby

Santa Cruz Tortoise

Monster from the Black Lagoon
Actually a Santa Cruz tortoise bathing in pool, covered in mud and algae.

Yellow Warbler

Sometimes you have to watch your toes.

Male Frigate Bird

Catching some rays
A sunning lava lizard on the highest point which just happens to be on a marine iguana.

Male Frigate trying to attract a mate to the spot he picked to build a nest.

Immature frigate
Frigate birds are the best flyers in the world. They feed by stealing food from gulls and other birds which requires acrobatics. They end up requiring the longest adolescence of any bird staying on the nest for 18 months.

Sleepy Bandit

Marine Iguana sunning on a rock.
Marine iguanas feed on algae in the waters around the islands. Though right at the equator these waters are cooled by the Humbolt current making it impossible for these cold blooded reptiles to feed without first getting real warmed up.

Near sunset at Leon Dormido