Monday, March 12, 2012

(Sea) Lions and Penguins and Birds, Oh My!

After Lunahuaná, we headed further down the coast to Islas Ballestas. Islas Ballestas are a series of islands off the coast of Peru in Paracas that house a whole bunch of animals, including thousands of blue-footed boobies torpedoing into the water for fishies, seas lions fighting over turf on the warm rocks, and silly looking penguins hopping from ledge to ledge. For some reason when we first got the Peru guidebook, I latched onto the idea of seeing penguins and when anyone asked what we were going to do in Peru, I would immediately say “Pingüinos!” So naturally, we had to seek them out early in our trip.

Humbolt Penguins
 
Humbolt Penguins and a Pelican friend
Sea Lion Colony
Mommy sea lion helping the baby swim
Blue-footed Boobies

Me encantan los pinguinos
Oh, and Cole got pooped on, heeheehee.




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