Floreana Island
In the early hours of the day, we arrived in the southern realm of Galápagos and got to Floreana Island, famous for its human history. This was the first island to be colonized in 1832 as it was claimed by Ecuador. This island was well-known already by pirates, buccaneers, and whalers as they were looking for land tortoise meat, fresh water and also a wooden barrel that worked as a mailing facility for those who tried to get in touch with their families.
The tradition of taking letters and hand delivering them started with these early visitors, so we too, headed to post office bay to look for the barrel. Some took letters addressed close to where they live and also left their own ones, hoping somebody will take them and following the tradition, will deliver them by hand.
Once we finished in Post Office Bay, we had a wonderful time during our Zodiac ride around “La Loberia” (sea lions nursery). It was just fantastic, and we found many sea turtles, sea lions, frigates feeding, blue footed boobies, sally light foot crabs and sting rays resting peacefully at the sandy bottom.
After a wonderful time, we came aboard for breakfast and sailed around the northern coast of Floreana. We arrived to Champion islet where snorkelling was amazing. Just imagine playing with young Galápagos sea lions, large schools of fish, and also a Galápagos penguin, this was an incredible outing. We complemented our morning with a pleasant Zodiac ride to look for the endemic Floreana mockingbird (only found on Champion and another islet near by Floreana), and we found it along with other birds such as red billed tropic birds, swallow tailed gulls, Galápagos shearwaters, and one playful penguin that nibbled one of our guest toes; it was an incredible morning.
During the afternoon activities, we had many options: some went deep water snorkelling, others kayaking, and also a walk to see flamingos. Some were feeding while others took a siesta. All of them displayed the brightest pink colour we have ever seen.
As we crossed Punta Cormorant, we reached the nesting area for the Pacific green sea turtles, and we spotted a few of them in the bay together with a large school of mustard rays, and hundreds of diamond sting rays very close to the shore, so we watched them for some time from the water’s edge.
We returned aboard with much to share about each other’s experiences while watching an amazing sunset.
In the early hours of the day, we arrived in the southern realm of Galápagos and got to Floreana Island, famous for its human history. This was the first island to be colonized in 1832 as it was claimed by Ecuador. This island was well-known already by pirates, buccaneers, and whalers as they were looking for land tortoise meat, fresh water and also a wooden barrel that worked as a mailing facility for those who tried to get in touch with their families.
The tradition of taking letters and hand delivering them started with these early visitors, so we too, headed to post office bay to look for the barrel. Some took letters addressed close to where they live and also left their own ones, hoping somebody will take them and following the tradition, will deliver them by hand.
Once we finished in Post Office Bay, we had a wonderful time during our Zodiac ride around “La Loberia” (sea lions nursery). It was just fantastic, and we found many sea turtles, sea lions, frigates feeding, blue footed boobies, sally light foot crabs and sting rays resting peacefully at the sandy bottom.
After a wonderful time, we came aboard for breakfast and sailed around the northern coast of Floreana. We arrived to Champion islet where snorkelling was amazing. Just imagine playing with young Galápagos sea lions, large schools of fish, and also a Galápagos penguin, this was an incredible outing. We complemented our morning with a pleasant Zodiac ride to look for the endemic Floreana mockingbird (only found on Champion and another islet near by Floreana), and we found it along with other birds such as red billed tropic birds, swallow tailed gulls, Galápagos shearwaters, and one playful penguin that nibbled one of our guest toes; it was an incredible morning.
During the afternoon activities, we had many options: some went deep water snorkelling, others kayaking, and also a walk to see flamingos. Some were feeding while others took a siesta. All of them displayed the brightest pink colour we have ever seen.
As we crossed Punta Cormorant, we reached the nesting area for the Pacific green sea turtles, and we spotted a few of them in the bay together with a large school of mustard rays, and hundreds of diamond sting rays very close to the shore, so we watched them for some time from the water’s edge.
We returned aboard with much to share about each other’s experiences while watching an amazing sunset.
