Floreana Island
Today, many of our guests felt like they wanted to do everything, all the offered activities. We disembarked early in the morning to visit Post Office Bay, to send and receive some post cards from the famous barrel established there in the 1700’s. We combined that visit with another to the sea lion’s islets where we spent several minutes watching the sea lion pups playing in the water.
After breakfast we visited an island called Champion where we had the opportunity to go snorkeling and also try out the glass bottom boat, and turned out fantastic!
Lunch was another attraction in itself because we had a traditional Ecuadorian meal with many different dishes from the coast and also from the highlands of Ecuador.
In the afternoon we disembarked on the northernmost point of Floreana Island, called “Cormorant Point,” and only some few steps from the beach we encountered a lagoon with different lagoon birds such as the black-necked stilt and white-cheeked pintail ducks. The main attraction, however, were the Galápagos flamingoes. In the late afternoon it seemed they were flaming and shining in the light of the setting sun. We didn’t feel too much wind at all, and in the still waters it was easy to see the reflection of these birds on the water surface, so incredibly clear and peaceful.
Today, many of our guests felt like they wanted to do everything, all the offered activities. We disembarked early in the morning to visit Post Office Bay, to send and receive some post cards from the famous barrel established there in the 1700’s. We combined that visit with another to the sea lion’s islets where we spent several minutes watching the sea lion pups playing in the water.
After breakfast we visited an island called Champion where we had the opportunity to go snorkeling and also try out the glass bottom boat, and turned out fantastic!
Lunch was another attraction in itself because we had a traditional Ecuadorian meal with many different dishes from the coast and also from the highlands of Ecuador.
In the afternoon we disembarked on the northernmost point of Floreana Island, called “Cormorant Point,” and only some few steps from the beach we encountered a lagoon with different lagoon birds such as the black-necked stilt and white-cheeked pintail ducks. The main attraction, however, were the Galápagos flamingoes. In the late afternoon it seemed they were flaming and shining in the light of the setting sun. We didn’t feel too much wind at all, and in the still waters it was easy to see the reflection of these birds on the water surface, so incredibly clear and peaceful.
