Floreana Island
Galápagos has a very recent but extremely interesting human history, and Floreana Island has been host to most of the famous visits of adventurers back in time.
Following a nice tradition, we disembarked early in the morning at Post Office Bay, a place visited many times by buccaneers, pirates, whalers and many others who had hoped to send or receive letters between the outside world and their ships at sea. Captain James Collnete placed a barrel here back in the 17th century, where letters could be picked up and hand delivered. This tradition is still followed nowadays by Galápagos visitors.
Floreana is situated in the southern area of the archipelago, and therefore holds a wide variety of fish and coral heads among its rocky reefs, being bathed by the predominant Humboldt Current. Considering this underwater treasure of nature, we had great underwater expeditions around Champion Islet (a satellite islet of Floreana).
During the afternoon expedition, we landed on Cormorant Point, an area with great landscapes, where we learned about some endemic and native flora, the beginnings of the human history in the Galápagos, and the efforts of the National Park to eradicate some of the introduced species on this island.
Along our path, the color of the beaches changed from a very greenish brown sand (olivine) to a very white sand beach with clear water. Here the Pacific green sea turtles lay their eggs on the white sand, bringing many predator species waiting for the hatchlings to come out.
