Whoever said there is no such thing as a free lunch was obviously not thinking of blue footed boobies around a fisherman’s catch!

The boobies would stand around the crates of fish being brought in by fishermen.  As soon as the men turned their backs (with only a couple exceptions, they were all men), the boobies would walk up to a crate, grab a fish, and swallow it whole.  No need for the birds to go fishing when the fish were being brought to them in bulk!

Birds were swarming in the skies above

Evelyn was looking for some pelican photos to paint from, and they were plentiful. The pelicans usually caught their own fish though, rather than stealing from the fisherman crates.

We took a tour among the mangrove marshes, where we saw many male frigate birds in full mating plumage.