Galapagos Blue Footed Booby Takeoff

by Joan Carroll

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Galapagos Blue Footed Booby Takeoff

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

Description

The beach near Wizard Hill on San Cristobel Island in the Galapagos (Ecuador) was a really fun place to watch blue footed boobies plunge diving. They circle overhead until they spot their prey, then they fold their wings and dive headfirst into the water, impacting at speeds of more than 20 m/s (~45 mph). Try as I might, I never did catch them right before they entered the water. But I was able to photograph them as they got airborne again for the next plunge dive! We spent nearly an hour trying and trying again and had great fun doing it. Wizard Hill beach Wizard Hill, or Cerro Brujo, is an eroded hill on San Cristobal’s northwestern tip with one of the most picturesque beaches in the Galapagos. This white-sand, almost powder beach is filled with sea lions, pelicans, and boobies, and provides a great view of the island of Kicker Rock in the distance.

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