This was our third tour out with the hotel yatch but with our private guide Maritza just for us. We were pretty relaxed by this point - mike only brought one camera. Had to take the bus to the boat again, a 40 minute drive, but its a chance to rest a bit. Once aboard we opted not to do the first snorkel stop and just stayed on board relaxing with coffee. Anchor up again and off we went for about an hour. When we reached South Plaza Island, we let everyone else disembark first and then it was just us and Maritza with a great captain out in the panga mainly looking for red billed tropicbirds nesting. We found some and some more blue footed boobies along with many playful sea lions. The color and clarity of the water around this island is beautiful and we hoped to jump in to cool off after we did our hike. This is a spot where no swimming is allowed, however, due to sharks. While we were in the panga, the group hiking the island was signaling to us that there was a shark in the water - they had a higher vantage point. We spent some time watching it and were surprised the sea lions did not sound an alarm and were frankly sort of toying with the shark coming so close to it. After a while of that we did an abbreviated onshore hike to see the beautiful land iguanas and some finches. Back to the yatch and lunch - and this last day we were smart enough to have them load a bottle of wine for us! The sail back was about two hours because we went straight to port thereby skipping the bus ride. It was a little rougher than our other yatch rides but between the Dramamine and the wine, we were fine.
At this point, Chris is totally relaxed around crabs.
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