Ballestas Islands

The Ballestas Islands lay in the Pacific Ocean just off the Peruvian coast. On our boat trip we were lucky enough to see dolphins, seals, sea lions, pelicans, boobies, penguins and many other birds. It was fantastic although the smell of poo at times was overwhelming. The islands however make a lot of money from the sale of the bird droppings for fertilizer. Over thousands of years the deposits of droppings have reached as much as 50m deep! Lovely.