This morning Kerri took a boat tour to Islas Ballestas.
In the harbour was a concrete boat.
It’s not very fuel efficient, so it has been left in the harbour with the rebar slowly rusting away.
The islands were pretty colours and had no vegetation
This island was covered in hundreds of Peruvian Pelicans.
They seemed very crowded.
There is a strange symbol carved into one of the mountains. It has been there for at least 100 years. Some people think it is a pirate’s treasure map. A lot of other people have made up other ideas, most of which seem highly improbable and are based on no evidence. Kerri thinks the pirates were sandboarding.
There were tons of Peruvian boobies on the other islands.
There were also a couple of Humboldt penguins, a close relative of the galapagos penguins.
The sea lions are much bigger than the ones in the Galapagos.
The males actually kind of look like lions.
The females look more like the galapagos sea lions.
The boobies covered almost every surface.
I don’t know where they even nest, there didn’t seem to be any room.
There were also a few guanay cormorants.
They look a lot like the flightless cormorants until they spread their wings, and you see that they have real wings for flying.
There were only a couple of baby boobies, and they weren’t even that cute.
