This picture is out of the Book, One Island One Ocean and is a beach in La Punta filled with trash and dead animals.
Seawise Davit system was bent but didn't fail and held our dinghy to the boat during this brutal takedown. It gets an A++ in ATA's books.
Swallow-Tailed Gull - The gull with the red-rimmed eye in Ecuador is the Swallow-tailed Gull, the world's only nocturnal gull, found primarily in the Galapagos Islands, with its bright red eye-ring signaling breeding season.