August 2 2013
South Plaza Island
"South Plaza is a small uplifted island just off
the northeast
coast of Santa Cruz. The low lying landscape is
covered with
colorful saltbush , scrub and some prickly pear
cactus.
A subspecies of land iguana is found on the
island and and
numerous seabirds dwell in the steep southern
cliffs."
As someone said at lunch, each island is
different.
Today we walked along the cliffs of a landscape
with lots
of cactus and some large rocks. The rocks
weren't so
plentiful that walking was super difficult.
We saw
Land iguanas,
Sea lions,
Swallow tail sea gulls
Some people (including Foster) saw an owl. Our
group
looked for it but it must have left because we
couldn't find it.
Juvenile sea lions were playing near our pier
and were
fun to watch.
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