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Male frigatebirds showing off for the ladies

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Taking a nap

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We've been spotted!

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Swallow-tailed gull flying past a frigatebird

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Blue-footed booby preening

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Male frigatebird in flight

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More sea lions relaxing

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All puffed up

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Swallow-tailed gull

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Gull fight!

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Another beautiful room with a beautiful view! The Angermeyer Waterfront Inn in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz.

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These iguanas were carefully observing us get ready to go kayaking

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Paddling away from the hotel

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We snorkeled right under this napping spot for sea lions and iguanas

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Suspicious of these kayakers

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Exploring a side channel looking for birds and other wildlife...

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Lava gulls

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Proof that Giselle laid down on the job while Bill did all the work!

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Bird nesting in a mangrove

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Swimming across the channel

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Relaxing by the breakfast table

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Meeting a giant tortoise at El Chato Reserve

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When startled or concerned, giant tortoises retreat into their shell with a hissing sound (air is exhaled from their lungs to make enough room for their body to fit inside the shell).

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Giselle and Alicia looking for tortoises

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They must be nearby, this looks fresh! Tortoises don't do much digestion so they have to eat all day long.

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Black raspberries grow everywhere. Most weren't ripe enough to eat but the prickers were just right for grabbing at us as we walked past.

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Wallowing in the mud

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Giselle and her new friend

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Pintail ducks swimming through floating ferns

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Camouflage

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We interrupted this tortoise's overland adventure so it paused in a precarious position

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Beautiful fungi

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Passion flower

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Passion person

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Blazing a trail

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And anyway

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Yellow warbler

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Puerto Ayora

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Getting ready to upload a few pictures for the folks back home