![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGQwvI-Doo9ZZtY8syNQm8hoe6LZrukiSe6dBPZGEtUj0DyVsjv8_B0escphwMCehbb6Cnocd06c3nkOtwNIwpfW9fQWehoFQPzdUpadUnqvWGDJnohYzWtiHXfwLxTDYKX-6ezHKaEZ0/s320/25%25SITrip.03--Snake+Island.jpg)
The next photo is a view of the Pancake Islands. At least, that’s what I call them. They’re actually flat rocks, perhaps 10 yards in diameter, in a small bay next to one of Snake Island’s beaches. (If I’d moved my camera even a smidgen to the left, you would have seen the beginning of the narrow shore whose cliffs lead up to where I was standing.)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_ozM4QGZ0dVaOwjAT1FfWEP-6Stq0ZMJsuZkq1DTTupx7qM9MUXzn6nPxAPY7wwWKh7-r6LW_LqSZPmShedja80zvb7UHdzyMVV3W7D9BtcNzJ6FXjc6-CllHIwV-vYyeqQ5ZAbgl3A/s320/25%25SITrip--Pancake+Islands.jpg)
I’ve been to Snake Island only once. The real treat for me was seeing and photographing Red-Billed Tropic Birds--beautiful white birds with two, very long tail feathers--in their rock nests. The island is said to be one of the only two places in the world that they breed.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSNZ5mRzy-hZzcj1hl36CsUxWre_Zv06y50Ol3ndXQ2LZ2x7jo3dQJx22sLwShou8jkCANbfaDSHiFUcHw9qnDgPY1kpZ4qcNPqyvyeK3E4PhKLPHQ_4AQBYFVcsl5cT9fphXJKAC5n0/s320/25%25SITrip--RBTB+nest1+head-on.jpg)
For some additional, nice views of the island, check out the following blog that I discovered recently, put together by a couple (who I do not know) upon visiting Senegal a few years back.
www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Laura%20JohnInAfrica/page-2.html