Surreal is the only word I know that comes close to describing Clipperton. It was so cool sailing up to this atoll after 6 days at sea and suddenly seeing palm trees poke their tops out of the ocean. The sheer isolation is mind boggling as the nearest land is Socorro Island at over 500 miles away. The island is covered in different types of boobies and there are over a half million there in total. That means that Havili is due for a bit of a deck clean..haha. Beyond the boobies there were millions of orange crabs named aptly, Clipperton Crabs and that seemed to be about it for animal life. However the ocean had more fish than I have experienced, even blowing Socorro out of the water. There were constantly schools of Rainbow Runners (similar to Amberjacks) and Bluefin Trevally around the boat and countless whitetipped reef sharks. Sam even lost a fish he had on the line to a shark (the only thing left on the hook was the fishes head)! All in all a thoroughly wild island!