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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