The first is a shot of a blue footed boobie looking after its two young. When food is plentiful they will raise both of their offspring, but if it is scarce then the older one is left to die. This time around, however, both should survive.
This next shot is one of the seemingly endless pictures of sea lions I have amassed. I chose this one because it captures just how sorted they seem to have thei lives. They spend the vast majority of their time sunbathing if everytime we showed up is any indication. Of course they might just assume this pose to mock us everytime tourists arrive on the island... Even when they are in the water they look like they are enjoying themselves. When I went snorkelling later on one seemed to take great pleasure in shooting underneath me at high speed. It must be fun to move that quickly in water.
The last photograph for the moment is what I think is a nice shot of a pelican doing not much.
After the island trip and lunch we went to a long stretch of beach which is available for use by tourists. We spent several hours looking around and swimming while also sunbathing alongside what was upwards of 100 sea lions when I counted. Seriously, this seems to be their primary reason to exist. Eat to sunbathe.
After a few hours we saw one of the bigger cruise boats arrive and then deploy dingy after dingy of people which headed towards the beach which was about the time we decided to leave.
In the evening more travelling was done but the water (initially) wasn't as choppy as last night so we played some games. The first was a clapping game Patrick showed us which was a remarkable amount of fun.
You sit in a ring around a table with your hands in front of you. You then put your right hand over the left arm of the person to your right. Next the first player claps the table with one hand. If he claps once the next hand in line has to clap and so on. Two claps reverses direction, and three claps skips a hand. If you miss a clap or clap when you aren't meant to that hand is out. Last hand remaining is the winner. This sounds simple but because your hands are all scrambled and it moves quickly you get mixed up.
After this we played a card game brought by Amir called Taki. When I pointed out that it was just Uno he responded with, "No, it is Taki". Regardless of how many people turned up and said we were playing Uno he responded in this way. It seemed important to him that it was an Israeli game. Joy asked if on the last card we have to say, "Taki". "We say 'last card' but say what you want". I was amused.
Our evening ended when the water got rougher and all of us who were on chairs rather than the benches at the side were hurled unceremoniously about the room.
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