Galapagos Islands photos

Galapagos sea lion, adult male.
Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16393  

Galapagos sea lion blows a bubble.
Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki
Location: Isla Lobos, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16397  

Galapagos sea lion, Punta Espinosa.
Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki
Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 01665  

Brown pelican.
Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis
Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 02273  

Greater flamingo.
Species: Greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber
Location: Floreana Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 02279  

Scalloped hammerhead shark.
Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16249  

Orange cup coral.
Species: Orange cup coral, Tubastrea coccinea
Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 01858  

Flightless cormorant. In the absence of predators and thus not needing to fly, the flightless cormorants wings have degenerated to the point that it has lost the ability to fly, however it can swim superbly and is a capable underwater hunter. Punta Albemarle.
Species: Flightless cormorant, Nannopterum harrisi, Phalacrocorax harrisi
Location: Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16552  

Scalloped hammerhead shark, black and white / grainy.
Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16279  

Bigeye trevally jacks, schooling.
Species: Bigeye jack, Caranx sexfasciatus
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16346  

Black coral. The fan is five feet in diameter and the color of the live coral is more yellow-green than black.
Species: Black coral, Antipathidae
Location: Cousins, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16444  

Black coral.
Species: Black coral, Antipathidae
Location: Isla Champion, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 01867  

Brown pelican.
Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis
Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16542  

Darwin Island, with Darwins Arch on the right. Darwin Island is the northernmost of the Galapagos Islands and is home to enormous numbers of seabirds.
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16618  

Wolf Island, with a liveaboard tour boat below sheer seacliffs, is the largest of the islands in the distant northern island group of the Galapagos archipelago, is home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds. Vast schools of sharks and fish inhabit the waters surrounding Wolf Island.
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16629  

Booby in flight, motion blur.
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16686  

Brown pelican, waves, rocks and cliffs, sunset.
Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16689  

Scalloped hammerhead shark, black and white / grainy.
Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16252  

Spotted eagle ray.
Species: Spotted eagle ray, Aetobatus narinari
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16329  

Unidentified snapper.
Species: Lutjanus
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16356  

Sea Turtle, underwater, black and white.
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16383  

Yellowtail surgeonfish.
Species: Yellow-tailed surgeonfish, Prionurus laticlavius
Location: Cousins, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16390  

Bottlenose dolphin.
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16411  

Striped sea chub, schooling.
Species: Striped sea chub, Kyphosus analogous
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16412  

Pacific creolefish form immense schools and are a source of food for predatory fishes.
Species: Pacific creolefish, Paranthias colonus
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16434  

A SCUBA diver is immersed in an enormous school of Pacific creolefish, black and white / grainy.
Species: Pacific creolefish, Paranthias colonus
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16442  

Galapagos tortoise, Santa Cruz Island species, highlands of Santa Cruz island.
Species: Galapagos tortoise, Geochelone nigra
Location: Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16480  

Gordon Rocks, a spectacular dive site near South Plaza Island.
Location: Gordon Rocks, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16646  

Galapagos sea lion, Sullivan Bay.
Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki
Location: James Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 01700  

Galapagos land iguana.
Species: Galapagos land iguana, Conolophus subcristatus
Location: South Plaza Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 02991