Field notes, v1506
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Journal 25 1 Feb. Dela Punta, Galapagos, Ecuador all over our legs & clothes hawking flies, - 2 Feb. often they would leap entire off of the grand (area) in order to grab us & I saw many snatch flies out of the air. This was the first trip I'd seen tropidons in trees, yet in many locales, especially lofty ones, they would be 10 or 12 lizard high up in the branches. Few marine iguanas. Saw 4 or 5 sea lions, but then there is only a small beach. Iguanas hawking flies on sea lion backs. Did a little fishing off of the lava using crabs for bait. Caught a modest 12" reddish snig. Lost a much larger parrot fish. As I stood at the rocks, which were occasionally washed by the waves, a small (15") moray eel came slithering out of the water & into a small crack (filled with water) near my feet. It turned out to be a big leg, I fed it. Across the beach we ran 2 net lines, along lakes out thru the low, limby ('thorny') Prosopis. Geospiza magnirostris seen but not caught until morning 2 Feb. captured 10 or so B. fuliginosa & 6 or 7 G. sanderus. Also 2 G. fortisi, 1 or 2 G. difficilis. In the afternoon we walked up to