North Seymour and Rabida Island
Our guests slept well last night after a busy first day in the Galápagos Islands. We all got up early in the morning to have breakfast and start with the first morning walk.
We anchored at the island of North Seymour and landed at a very rocky shore where we started our first walk on Galápagos terrain. The trail was very rocky with a lot of large boulders, which made it a little difficult, but not impossible, to follow.
North Seymour is definitely one of the hotspots in biodiversity around the archipelago. This island is a nesting colony of magnificent and common frigatebirds. Beautiful and unique marine and land iguanas, finches, doves, mockingbirds, lava lizards and more came along with us during our boulder walk.
Those guests who did not feel like rock-hopping were offered a brief zodiac ride along the cliffs and a short easy walk where they could also observe a lot of the wildlife. The heat, on the other hand, played tricks on us, as this was an extremely hot early morning, maybe a little more than 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
The prize we all got after the hot walk was a fabulous snorkeling time along the shores of North Seymour. The water was extremely clear; we saw hundreds of colorful fish, a couple of sharks and some marine iguanas along the cliffs.
The afternoon highlight was kayaking surrounded by blue-footed boobies and pelicans, glass-bottom boating, and walking on the red cones of Rabida Island, enjoying the pretty colors and feeling the marine breeze.
