Islands of the Chagos Archipelago

A group of several Lesser Noddies (Anous tenuirostris) are joined by another.
A Lesser Noddy (Anous tenuirostris) caught mid-flap while returning to its nesting area.
A shadow selfie islands style.
Area of the beach covered by shell hash and tumbled pieces of coral skeleton.
Boobies soaring overhead.
Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) silhouette as it flies overhead and into the sun.
Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) near its burrow among coconut palm roots.
Dense cluster of boobies and frigatebirds soaring in an azure blue sky made quite the racket.
Gathering of snails seems like it was an opportunity for many of them to find a mate.
Good time not to be on shore as a rain storm rolls through.
Great Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii) hunting along the breaking waves.
Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) tracks to the nest at the treeline.
Group of Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula) in a small bare tree.
Not Robinson Crusoe but a footprint on a pristine section of the beach.
Orb weaver spider (Argiope sp.) in the vegetation along the beach.
Pair of Lesser Noddies (Anous tenuirostris) and a Horn-eyed Ghost Crab (Ocypode ceratopthalma) have a face-off.
Pavement of coral rubble along the beach on Middle Brother.
Plastic fishing net float buoy buried in the beach sand.
Profile of Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) as it flies by the dive boat.
Raceway of overlapping tracks from Strawberry Hermit Crabs (Coenobita perlatus).
Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula) heads off to sea.
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) caught mid-flap while flying by.
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) chick near fledging size.
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) sleeping soundly.
Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) soaring by on a thermal updraft.
Shell of a giant clam (likely Tridacna squammosa) spotted among the coral rubble.
Silhouette of a Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) as the storm clouds roll in.
Small hermit--possibly a young Strawberry Hermit (Coenobita perlatus)--inhabiting one of the snail shells.
Small Strawberry Hermit Crab (Coenobita perlatus) climbs among the fushy foliage.
Squadron of female Greater Frigatebirds (Fregata minor).
Strawberry Hermit Crab (Coenobita perlatus) scrambles over coral rubble.
Sunset over Middle Brother.
Small round tidepool in a rocky section of the beach likely caused by the rootball of a coconut palm tree.
Trio of Brown Boobies (Sula leucogaster).
Understory of the coconut palm canopy showing dense thicket of sprouted coconuts.
Very decorated snail slowly traversing the rocky shore at the water\'s edge.
View along the beach on Danger Island.
View of a rocky section of the beach with many tide pools on Middle Brother.
Waves breaking among the coral rubble tossed up on the beach along Middle Brother.

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