Punta Pitt and Kicker Rock (San Cristobal)
After navigating all the way to the eastern side of the archipelago, we had a wet landing on a beautiful visitor site known as Punta Pitt. The golden sandy beach that welcomed us was full of a colony of bachelor sea lions. We had a great hike along the cliffs and the interesting geological features of this place made by the eroded tuff cones.
Punta Pit is the place in the east where red-footed boobies can be found, we were lucky to find some of them nesting on the plants. There are no words to describe how amazing the brown cliffs were contrasted by the red sesuvium (Galápagos carpet weed) already turning bright red showing the beginning of the dry season in the enchanted islands. Some of us had the chance to snorkel with sea lions and big schools of semi-tropical fish.
We navigated aboard National Geographic Islander and repositioned next to an eroded tuff cone in the middle of the ocean, known as kicker Rock. Even though the seas were a bit rough, we had the opportunity to snorkel with a group of giant spotted eagle rays; some big Galapagos sharks were spotted too. We snorkeled through a big fissure, a stone cathedral, known by the locals as the sleeping lion. The rays, turtles and the sharks had farewell us today and the beginning of world expedition had just began.
Galápagos is a microcosm of the whole world and has shown us how humans can learn from the rest of the species existing on this beautiful planet.
