Santiago Island
Today we had the opportunity to visit three visitor sites on the same island. We started first with a wet landing in a black volcanic material beach, known as Espumilla Beach, to explore the interior part which is covered with dense native vegetation. This provides a perfect niche for many land birds, and this morning we saw many of them such as: Galápagos hawks, Galápagos mockingbirds, several species of Darwin finches, yellow warblers and Galápagos flycatchers. We also spotted blue-footed boobies and pelicans fishing along the beach. This area is also a very important nesting ground of the pacific green sea turtle.
We continued our adventure in a place known as Buccaneers Cove. This name was given by English explorers in the early eighteen hundreds. The bay is perfect for water activities, so we offered snorkeling and kayaking activities at the same time, before we continued with our afternoon activities we decided to go out again on our Zodiacs to enjoy the beauty of this impressive geological formation, and this time we took our cameras to capture this moment in Galápagos geology history.
Our last activity took place in another wonderful visitor site known as Puerto Egas. Its name was given by local people Hector Egas and his family, who moved to this port to start a salt mining operation in the mid nineteen hundreds without much success. We saw evidence of this abandon salt mine which is part of the human history of Galápagos.
At this location we offered either a nature walk or snorkeling and relaxing at the beach, it was a very difficult decision for our guests, but in the end both groups were very satisfied with their own experience.
To celebrate our day we offered BBQ a dinner on our outside decks, with a very romantic and starry night.
