I have been on three Caribbean cruises now, all in January, and the easiest
bird to see in my opinion was the Masked Booby. I saw them once or twice on
each cruise, closely following the ship, often for 15 minutes or longer.
This last January on a cruise while going from Cartagena, Colombia to Aruba
we passed a couple of rock islands (probable nest sites) about a mile to the
south, and for over an hour there were dozens of Masked Boobies closely
following the ship. I counted at least 33 of them just on the starboard
side of the ship, along with a few Brown Boobies.
Interestingly enough, I had received an email from Arlene Ripley (AZ) a
month before who had experienced the same thing on her cruise ship at the
same spot a month earlier.
-Joe Byrnes
Columbia, MD.
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