HELLO!


One animal that you can see all over the Galápagos Islands are sea lions.

Really cute animals who seem to enjoy every minute of the day, also doing nothing is very popular:






Or lying at the beach:








Or swimming is of course very popular. And whenever you are in the water, swimming, snorkeling or diving there are always a few sea lions who come right up to you to check you out.
They want to play with you and do all sorts of funny things around you. And they come really really close at times (unfortunately I don't have underwater pictures to put on this website):




This little guy was really courageous



Usually they don't come up to you all that close on land... but this one definitely took a liking to my shoes and feet!



And Barbara's water bottle seemed just as interesting:



When your boat is not moving at night they also like to use the back of the boat as a nice resting place:




One last thing, as nice and funny and cute as they might be, they also have one huge negative thing about them...