Hood Island
It’s the only day in the week when our guests can sleep up to eight! I think quite a few of them were really glad about this fact as we have been having a lot of excitement in all the past days, mornings and afternoons…
After our breakfast today, we disembarked with the experienced snorkelers to Tortuga Islet on Gardner Bay. This was to be the last great snorkelling on this trip, and we were not wrong. The water was beautifully crystal clear, warm and full of marine life: sea turtles, sea stars, white tipped sharks, a couple of sting rays together with a large and colourful variety of our tropical fish made of this last deep water snorkelling one of the high lights of the day, more than 30 guests took this excursion and were all really pleased with it. We even had a couple of ladies who had never done it, and did not know how to swim well. One of them even had a cast on her right arm, and with a little of our help, they deep water snorkelled too with every one else on Tortuga Islet, well done Judith and Barbara! You are two really brave ladies.
As soon as everybody was done with snorkelling, we were all eager to go visit the beautiful and inviting white sandy beach of Gardner Bay. From the beach, we could observe a lot of sea turtles which were swimming along the shore maybe waiting for dusk to come up to the white sandy dunes and lay their eggs. During the walk on the beach, we followed the fast lava lizards in their courting-nesting stages and got some good shots of a female all blushed up building her nest on the sand dunes.
Sea lions as usual were our companions on the beach. After this nice morning, we all got back on board to get ready for one of the greatest hikes of the trip: Punta Suarez. We disembarked at 3:30 and found as usual the greeting committee formed by sea lions, a hawk sitting on the light house and the Hood colourful marine iguanas. As we advanced on the trail, we found Nazca boobies nesting with their little chicks, and we were lucky enough to still run into seven adult waved albatrosses that just nest on this island and which by now should all be gone. Two couples are still taking care of their fledglings as they cannot yet fly but surely will be ready by the time the heat hits the islands and they will take off towards the ocean with their parents. This was another wonderful day, and we will continue tomorrow in paradise with another incredible day.
It’s the only day in the week when our guests can sleep up to eight! I think quite a few of them were really glad about this fact as we have been having a lot of excitement in all the past days, mornings and afternoons…
After our breakfast today, we disembarked with the experienced snorkelers to Tortuga Islet on Gardner Bay. This was to be the last great snorkelling on this trip, and we were not wrong. The water was beautifully crystal clear, warm and full of marine life: sea turtles, sea stars, white tipped sharks, a couple of sting rays together with a large and colourful variety of our tropical fish made of this last deep water snorkelling one of the high lights of the day, more than 30 guests took this excursion and were all really pleased with it. We even had a couple of ladies who had never done it, and did not know how to swim well. One of them even had a cast on her right arm, and with a little of our help, they deep water snorkelled too with every one else on Tortuga Islet, well done Judith and Barbara! You are two really brave ladies.
As soon as everybody was done with snorkelling, we were all eager to go visit the beautiful and inviting white sandy beach of Gardner Bay. From the beach, we could observe a lot of sea turtles which were swimming along the shore maybe waiting for dusk to come up to the white sandy dunes and lay their eggs. During the walk on the beach, we followed the fast lava lizards in their courting-nesting stages and got some good shots of a female all blushed up building her nest on the sand dunes.
Sea lions as usual were our companions on the beach. After this nice morning, we all got back on board to get ready for one of the greatest hikes of the trip: Punta Suarez. We disembarked at 3:30 and found as usual the greeting committee formed by sea lions, a hawk sitting on the light house and the Hood colourful marine iguanas. As we advanced on the trail, we found Nazca boobies nesting with their little chicks, and we were lucky enough to still run into seven adult waved albatrosses that just nest on this island and which by now should all be gone. Two couples are still taking care of their fledglings as they cannot yet fly but surely will be ready by the time the heat hits the islands and they will take off towards the ocean with their parents. This was another wonderful day, and we will continue tomorrow in paradise with another incredible day.
