Today was our SCUBA trip. This picture was post dives...so sorry about the ratty hair. Anyways, our guides were awesome. We saw a five white tip sharks, huge schools of spotted and goldent rays and tons of great fish like surgeons, angelfish, moorish idols, and parrotfish. After the dives, we had a 3 hour boat ride to our next island. Plenty of time to relax and catch some sun. 
A huge flock of frigate birds were following the boat. There were about 15 and they were awesome, just gliding on the air from the boat.
When we reached Sante Fe, we took a break for lunch before heading to the island.
Most of Santa Fe was sea lions, and they are such funny animals. I was really interested in them because they are closely related to the fur seal (I wrote my research on the fur seal for Antarctica...shameless plug for my other blogs...) So here...I compiled my favorite pics of sea lions from Santa Fe. And yeah...they pretty much just laid around and slept all day.
Stretching.
Yawning...lazy beasts.
This was a really cute pup that wanted to show off his manly neck.
Another Santa Fe native, the Land Lizard.
We learned about the Darwin finch which is the basis for most of Darwin's theories from these islands. Kevin was on the other boat of 16 Fellows and it was awesome to meet up with them for our tour of Santa Fe.
Gorgeous scenic views.
This was my favorite animal of the trip. This little pup kept climbing up on his mom and making noises at us.
And instead of turning his head to check Colleen and me out, he would bend his neck backwards. I have some great video of this cutie.
Right before we were going to get back on the boat for dinner, we came to a beach filled with hundreds of sea lions. They were awesome. And this little guy was napping so I couldn't help but take a picture with him.
Male seals have harems of about 15 females and their pups. When I went over to take a picture with the sleeping pup, this male decided to try to show me who was boss. 
This little pup, was practicing his manly skills of showing off his size, so I decided to play along. He got really confused that I wasn't scared.
We met back up to watch the sunset with the other group. Ben and I were reppin the under armor...shocker.
Another Santa Fe native, the Land Lizard.
We learned about the Darwin finch which is the basis for most of Darwin's theories from these islands. Kevin was on the other boat of 16 Fellows and it was awesome to meet up with them for our tour of Santa Fe.
Gorgeous scenic views.
This was my favorite animal of the trip. This little pup kept climbing up on his mom and making noises at us. And instead of turning his head to check Colleen and me out, he would bend his neck backwards. I have some great video of this cutie.
Right before we were going to get back on the boat for dinner, we came to a beach filled with hundreds of sea lions. They were awesome. And this little guy was napping so I couldn't help but take a picture with him. Male seals have harems of about 15 females and their pups. When I went over to take a picture with the sleeping pup, this male decided to try to show me who was boss. This little pup, was practicing his manly skills of showing off his size, so I decided to play along. He got really confused that I wasn't scared. We met back up to watch the sunset with the other group. Ben and I were reppin the under armor...shocker.
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