As you replace your water shoes with hiking shoes, you will be distracted by sea lions frolicking in the water, riding waves toward shore and hauling out on the beach. This bachelor colony seems to relish all of the snapping cameras. At the base of the rocks you might see lava herons, marine iguanas and Sally Lightfoot crabs. In the cliff wall are nesting swallow-tailed gulls and storm petrels. And often overhead are flying great and magnificent frigatebirds. What an amazing opening act at Punta Pitt.
