Dec 30: Galapagos Day 3: Iguanas

Today's island's main features were crab, flightless cormorants, and lots and lots of iguanas:

Not to be out-done, the local sea lions stages several dramas for us while we toured by, featuring:

1) Alpha male catching lesser male near his harem and forcefully chasing him away.
2) Young pups frolicing and rough-housing in the nursery.
3) Baby pup not knowing where its mother was and wailing, mother barking in reply, followed by a joyful reunion.

Andrew has a theory that most of the animals are animatronics stolen from a theme-park somewhere. There's simply no other way to explain the story-lines they act out and the perfect poses they always assume.

Everything was relaxing that evening until... PIRATE ATTACK!!!

As we crossed the equator for the first time during the daylight hours (though the third of the trip overall) we were attacked by a roving band of Galapagos pirates (plus Neptune and a strange bishop for some reason):

Fortunately, we were allows to join the pirate clan and were sworn in with new Galapagos names and a shot of “iguana blood” Strangely, none of the regular crew was around to help us during the attack...?