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Taking the road less traveled Spending a year in five continents to embrace my "inner turtle", to live simply, and to avoid being shark bait!

Galapagos and rest of Ecuador

A female frigate sitting on top of its young, which is that fluff of white feather, to protect it from predators.

ECUADOR | Tuesday, 21 August 2012 | Views [279]

A female frigate sitting on top of its young, which is that fluff of white feather, to protect it from predators.

Tags: frigate, juvenile

Three frigate birds, two males (with red chest) and one female. The male puffs up the red chest and drums on it to attract the female. The male in the pair actually has its left wing around the female!

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We landed on Isla Isabella and immediately came across a sea lion who just gave birth, the placenta was still attached to the mother and partially on the baby.

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