Punta Vicente Roca, Isabela Island, and Punta Suarez, Fernandina Island
We had a wonderful and exciting early morning spent watching two or three Bryde’s whales (mother and calf, but they didn’t stay long), and probably over four hundred common dolphins. We all had a great breakfast to continue the day, crossed the equator line, and pulled into our anchorage at Pt. Vicente Roca. There we took to the Zodiacs and left the coast for deeper waters searching for the Mola mola, or more often known as the ocean sunfish. It was an overall extremely successful outing. We found many marine iguanas (even one swimming extremely far from shore), Galápagos penguins, blue footed boobies diving and of course the sea lions and fur seals.
We can’t skip over the mid-day meal either, in this account. It was a marvelous, tasty and colorful Ecuadorian buffet lunch.
Snorkeling at Fernandina turned out exceptional, with green marine turtles and playful sea lions stealing the show.
Later we disembarked for a land visit on Punta Espinosa of Fernandina Island where the flat rocky areas offered wonderful colonies of huge marine iguanas, a nesting colony of flightless cormorants, and the unusual penguins were found along the shores of the bay. One of the most surprising findings was the Galápagos hawk trying to hunt a marine iguana.
We had a wonderful and exciting early morning spent watching two or three Bryde’s whales (mother and calf, but they didn’t stay long), and probably over four hundred common dolphins. We all had a great breakfast to continue the day, crossed the equator line, and pulled into our anchorage at Pt. Vicente Roca. There we took to the Zodiacs and left the coast for deeper waters searching for the Mola mola, or more often known as the ocean sunfish. It was an overall extremely successful outing. We found many marine iguanas (even one swimming extremely far from shore), Galápagos penguins, blue footed boobies diving and of course the sea lions and fur seals.
We can’t skip over the mid-day meal either, in this account. It was a marvelous, tasty and colorful Ecuadorian buffet lunch.
Snorkeling at Fernandina turned out exceptional, with green marine turtles and playful sea lions stealing the show.
Later we disembarked for a land visit on Punta Espinosa of Fernandina Island where the flat rocky areas offered wonderful colonies of huge marine iguanas, a nesting colony of flightless cormorants, and the unusual penguins were found along the shores of the bay. One of the most surprising findings was the Galápagos hawk trying to hunt a marine iguana.
