Baby Boobies & Other Birds
21 April 2008 | Aves de Sotevento, Venezuela
janet
Full Circle!
Well, about 6 months & 1,800 miles later and we've now come full circle. We're back in Aves de Sotavento and have just crossed our original path - we sailed here last December en route to Puerto Rico, and vowed to return to this desolate, beautiful little group of islands and reefs. This time, we anchored near what we're calling "Bird Island". There are literally thousands of birds nesting on this little island....mostly terns, we're thinking, and a few gulls, but we also saw a "baby Boobie" - the fuzzy one on the left in the photo attached to this entry. I had a bit of a Hitchcock moment as I apparently got to close to someone's nest and this tern swooped down, invoking a little scream out of me as his face all of a sudden appeared directly in front of my camera lens. (Sorry, bird!). We also had a few great snorkels here and saw 2 octopuses (octopi?), some HUGE 3' parrotfish, and then a NUCLEAR parrotfish. No kidding, this thing was close to 4 feet in length!
Just a few more days and then we're off to Bonaire, the island where we first laid eyes on Scappatella way back in January of 07.