Bartolomé & Santiago Island
I’m peacefully navigating the calm and deep blue waters off the north coast of Santiago; tomorrow this expedition will be over, and I am so sad to see it end, but we have seen so many wonderful things.
In the morning we saw the most impressive rock in the entire archipelago, the famous pinnacle rock at Bartolomé Island. Early walkers leave the ship to arrive to the summit of one of the biggest parasitic volcanoes of the Galápagos, from where we could be delighted by the awesome landscape of six different islands. As we all reached the top, we went down after this hike ready to have our deserved breakfast.
Next visit was to the golden beach of the same island, we walked trough the dunes of sand to arrive to the Eastern side and enjoy the wealth of white tip reef sharks, turtles, American oystercatchers and many intertidal pools. I sat there for fifty minutes to take pleasure in the site and suddenly the American oystercatcher that is in the picture came next to me looking for crabs, right in the rock that I chose!
As I’m writing we are heading to our adopted island, for many years Santiago has seen the benefits of our efforts of conservation; Lindblad Expeditions has supported the eradication programs of introduced animals, and today we can see the results.
Our last day in paradise was as good as the first. It is always sad to say goodbye but this is the beginning of the year. What could be a better place than here?
I’m peacefully navigating the calm and deep blue waters off the north coast of Santiago; tomorrow this expedition will be over, and I am so sad to see it end, but we have seen so many wonderful things.
In the morning we saw the most impressive rock in the entire archipelago, the famous pinnacle rock at Bartolomé Island. Early walkers leave the ship to arrive to the summit of one of the biggest parasitic volcanoes of the Galápagos, from where we could be delighted by the awesome landscape of six different islands. As we all reached the top, we went down after this hike ready to have our deserved breakfast.
Next visit was to the golden beach of the same island, we walked trough the dunes of sand to arrive to the Eastern side and enjoy the wealth of white tip reef sharks, turtles, American oystercatchers and many intertidal pools. I sat there for fifty minutes to take pleasure in the site and suddenly the American oystercatcher that is in the picture came next to me looking for crabs, right in the rock that I chose!
As I’m writing we are heading to our adopted island, for many years Santiago has seen the benefits of our efforts of conservation; Lindblad Expeditions has supported the eradication programs of introduced animals, and today we can see the results.
Our last day in paradise was as good as the first. It is always sad to say goodbye but this is the beginning of the year. What could be a better place than here?
