Galapagos: Tower Island
Tower Island had a wealth of wildlife. We saw two different varieties of booby – the gallery below shows masked boobies nesting. You could get amazingly close, as you can see. One has both an egg and a chick, another has a broken egg and a dead chick.
These are the red-footed boobies – cute, but my favourites are still the blue-footed boobies in the previous post.
Swallow-tailed gulls also had chicks –
– as did the frigatebirds. The black bird here is a deflated male – see the previous post for shots of that magnificent red pouch inflated.
This is a lava heron and a yellow-crowned night heron:
Marine iguanas were everywhere!
And there were people, of course there were people, but not too many. The young lady with the cap is our guide, Cathy. Tourism to Galapagos is strictly controlled and you can’t land on any of the islands without a guide. As for that T-shirt – I still have it, but it’s never seen outside the house.
Final Galapagos post next Thursday!
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
Fantastic photos. I visited the Galapagos a couple of years ago and it is interesting to see your posts from an earlier time. Sadly a lot of development has happened since you were there though.
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Thank you! I read someone else’s blog on Galapagos recently and can see how things have changed. I’m reluctant to go back.
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I know Galapagos are an heaven for wildlife, but I’m still amazed at the variety.
And that shirt is lovely, why do you want to hide it? 😛
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I wear it to sleep in now!
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Such an amazing trip. I would love to see all this exotic wildlife!
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I hope you do some day!
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Thanks for visiting! I’ll return your call later.
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Amazing abundance of wildlife! It is 50 years since I dream about visiting this place 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
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I hope you get there some day.
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Such an abundance of wildlife, Anabel. I think I’d love it there too. Gosh, it seems like iguanas are indeed everywhere. I’ve just been outside taking photos of one in our backyard. 🙂
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I don’t suppose any of this seems as exotic to you as it did to us!
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Maybe not, but I’d still love to go. 😃
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Amazing you could get so close to them. Is that because they have no fear of people? Even after a couple of hundred of years of visitors?
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Yes – visitors are quite sparse and they have no reason to fear them as they have never done them any harm.
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Lovely pictures ! The different types of birds are really awesome, the masked boobies are quite interesting but my favourite are the blue footed.. they look so silly !
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Yes, the blue feet are winning the popular vote!
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Do those red footed boobies have pale blue beaks, or is it just the lighting? It would be too much of a coincidence? 🙂
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No, they are blue. I much prefer the colour coordination of the blue footed ones!
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So many males can feel deflated when the gals don’t give them what they want:) Love the wildlife and those iguanas crack me up for some reason
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Poor deflated frigate bird!
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You are so young in that photo and so lucky to have visited such a place.
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Well, I was 42 which seems young now!
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Fascinating captures… 🙂
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Thank you!
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Such interesting birds. And I like the lizards, too. Now I have to go back and see the blue-footed boobies you mentioned.
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And I see you did!
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Amazing how close those birds allow you to go – gorgeous pictures Anabel. I think the little blue footed guy is my favourite too though!!
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Yes, the beaks and feet match. The red ones are a bit ……. red!
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Hi Anabel – gosh you were lucky to visit and when it was very quiet there. But the wildlife must be fantastic to see … lovely photos and I’d love to visit … the T shirt isn’t so bad – shows the birds off well! Cheers Hilary
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Thanks Hilary! We were very lucky indeed.
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