Our first stop in Ecuador was Puerto Lopez. It has a decent amount of wildlife and since we are not going to the Galapagos this trip, we decided this would be our mini version! It was raining a bit when we arrived so we just checked out the town a little - doesn´t take very long as it is mainly a fishing town. It is right on the coast in a horseshoe shaped bay with lots of fishing boats tied up around the beach. In the morning we headed out for a day trip to La Isla de la Plata. On the way we saw some humpback whales coming up out of the water. They travel from Antarctica during June - October for mating. Normally the mating season is mid June so we mainly saw them spray the water. If we were just a week later we could have heard them singing and jumping out of the water. Still cool to see them. When were almost to the island we were surrounded by the largest school of dolphins running on top of the water I have ever seen in my life! There were hundreds of them jumping all along the boat and doing tricks in the air. We got some good videos of it on our Flikr page. On the island they have blue-footed boobies, red-footed boobies, and frigatebirds - to name a few. The blue-footed boobie is the funniest looking bird with bright blue feet. The frigatebirds were in mating season so we got to see the males blow up their red pouches and make a deep drumming sound. Really cool trip, and deserves the poor man´s Galapagos name.
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