Española Island
We woke up in the morning surrounded by the impressive turquoise waters of Gardner Bay. As the morning progressed, we got ready to go to turtle rock for some snorkeling. Within only a few seconds after jumping in the water, we observed an incredible display of marine life. Colorful parrot fish and entire schools of black striped salemas were swimming carelessly under us, but some other species like the octopus was found swimming among the amazing underwater geological formations of the area.
For all of us whom decided that kayak was the way to go this morning, we had a blast! We started our paddling towards the cliff section of the Island, and soon enough, we found ourselves surrounded by our friends, the blue footed boobies.
Later on the beach, we took a walk to observe one of the largest colonies of sea lions that we have in the Galápagos. Some of us had our entertaining looking at the nursing pups, while others were observing the big bull sea lion as he was carefully patrolling the coastline. Many of us were simply walking along the white sandy beach, perhaps just thinking how nature works in mysterious ways to have everything under balance.
Lunch time entertainment was a large school of Bottlenose Dolphins that took us right out of the dinning room. There were hundreds of them playing and jumping at the distance, and as the ship was getting closer, they became interested in the bow and started to ride and jump in front of our “bend down bodies!”
The afternoon walk was perfect! Lots of marine iguanas with a distinctive red and green color were found just a few feet from the dock. That was only the welcome committee, since plenty of wildlife was found all the way along the cliff.
Our evening began with the captain’s farewell cocktail. The captain himself addressed some words full of happy wishes and good traveling to our guests one more time. It is hard for us to say good bye to our new friends, but we are happy that each one of them are going back home knowing what Galápagos is really all about: a place fully in contact with nature and perhaps the future of humanity in terms of conservation!
We woke up in the morning surrounded by the impressive turquoise waters of Gardner Bay. As the morning progressed, we got ready to go to turtle rock for some snorkeling. Within only a few seconds after jumping in the water, we observed an incredible display of marine life. Colorful parrot fish and entire schools of black striped salemas were swimming carelessly under us, but some other species like the octopus was found swimming among the amazing underwater geological formations of the area.
For all of us whom decided that kayak was the way to go this morning, we had a blast! We started our paddling towards the cliff section of the Island, and soon enough, we found ourselves surrounded by our friends, the blue footed boobies.
Later on the beach, we took a walk to observe one of the largest colonies of sea lions that we have in the Galápagos. Some of us had our entertaining looking at the nursing pups, while others were observing the big bull sea lion as he was carefully patrolling the coastline. Many of us were simply walking along the white sandy beach, perhaps just thinking how nature works in mysterious ways to have everything under balance.
Lunch time entertainment was a large school of Bottlenose Dolphins that took us right out of the dinning room. There were hundreds of them playing and jumping at the distance, and as the ship was getting closer, they became interested in the bow and started to ride and jump in front of our “bend down bodies!”
The afternoon walk was perfect! Lots of marine iguanas with a distinctive red and green color were found just a few feet from the dock. That was only the welcome committee, since plenty of wildlife was found all the way along the cliff.
Our evening began with the captain’s farewell cocktail. The captain himself addressed some words full of happy wishes and good traveling to our guests one more time. It is hard for us to say good bye to our new friends, but we are happy that each one of them are going back home knowing what Galápagos is really all about: a place fully in contact with nature and perhaps the future of humanity in terms of conservation!
