We travel to the Island of North Seymour overnight. There are five people leaving us today- many of those that only joined us 5 days ago. We have a pre-breakfast walk to see nesting frigates and blue footed boobies. Several of the male frigates are puffed up and I note the black dots on the red sacs, close to the body of the males. My favourite, and most special moment is a couple of blue footed boobies who were doing a mating dance. The male displays his blue feet, makes whistling sounds and does wing displays. The female first ignored him for a little while then joined in the dancingā¦.clearly the male was her type š a short while later the male presented her with some sticks, and she did likewise. They began piling them in the same location as a teamā¦ I think we have a match! The video of the mating dance (>600MB) is again large but great to watch!!
The island also has many land iguanas- which is the first time that the new additions to the group see these.
After breakfast some of our passengers depart with hugs and āsee you latersā, and we stay on the boat as there isnāt much of a town or community to visit while the others are dropped off at the airport and another five replacements are picked up. Our guide told us to behave…so we amended the afternoon plan for when the others return to include shirtless Zumba, dancing,open bar and crafts and tattoos in the evening š .
