This photo was shot atop a rocky cliff that is the breeding grounds for the Waved Albatross on Espanola Island, Galapagos.
Yes, I climbed the cliff over the kind of rocks and boulders that you see in this photo http://www.pbase.com/britestar/image/158984782
Luckily, it was a cloudy, overcast day, or else I wouldn't have survived the brutal climb.
Waved Albatross are ritically Endangered in the Wild http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3955
Three fourth the Albatross eggs laid - in nests that I saw - had been abandoned and would never hatch.
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