Hood Island
After a smooth navigation last night, we arrived to Hood Island early this morning. We started our day with a pre-breakfast kayak outing. While kayaking we encountered several seabirds like brown pelicans, blue-footed boobies, and frigates birds fishing. We had great conditions, after the unusual winds from the past days.
As we arrived on board, a delicious breakfast was waiting for us and, with our energies renewed, we left towards Gardner Islet where we snorkeled with lots of fish, and sea lions. We saw a couple of bonito feeding along the wall of this islet; there we also went inside a large lava tunnel, and swam with large schools of creole fish, surgeon fish, and king angel fish.
After we snorkeled, we went to Gardner Bay, which looks as if it were taken from an enchanted story, the light turquoise blue water, white sand, and full of sea lions resting side by side. We swam with some of those sea lions; some of our guests were closely examined by a couple of sea lions on land as well as on water. The most difficult part was leaving the place; it was an absolute blessing to be there.
This afternoon we walked along Punta Suarez trail, where we observed Nazca boobies in their breeding grounds, blue-footed boobies in their mating rituals, and a Galápagos hawk peacefully resting on a bush, right on the trail where we found it. For a moment it was face to face with us. That hawk didn’t look to care and we left it roosting in the same bush.
We approached the end of our trail; we left the island feeling amazed and happy with all the things we saw, learned and experienced this week!
After a smooth navigation last night, we arrived to Hood Island early this morning. We started our day with a pre-breakfast kayak outing. While kayaking we encountered several seabirds like brown pelicans, blue-footed boobies, and frigates birds fishing. We had great conditions, after the unusual winds from the past days.
As we arrived on board, a delicious breakfast was waiting for us and, with our energies renewed, we left towards Gardner Islet where we snorkeled with lots of fish, and sea lions. We saw a couple of bonito feeding along the wall of this islet; there we also went inside a large lava tunnel, and swam with large schools of creole fish, surgeon fish, and king angel fish.
After we snorkeled, we went to Gardner Bay, which looks as if it were taken from an enchanted story, the light turquoise blue water, white sand, and full of sea lions resting side by side. We swam with some of those sea lions; some of our guests were closely examined by a couple of sea lions on land as well as on water. The most difficult part was leaving the place; it was an absolute blessing to be there.
This afternoon we walked along Punta Suarez trail, where we observed Nazca boobies in their breeding grounds, blue-footed boobies in their mating rituals, and a Galápagos hawk peacefully resting on a bush, right on the trail where we found it. For a moment it was face to face with us. That hawk didn’t look to care and we left it roosting in the same bush.
We approached the end of our trail; we left the island feeling amazed and happy with all the things we saw, learned and experienced this week!
