Santiago Island
It is October and a young naturalist walks along the shoreline of Santiago Island. The southern trade winds blow hard on his face while he collects barnacles and all kinds of other shells.
He looks at sugar loaf, the small tuff cone on the western side of the island, and he realizes that those winds must be the prevailing ones because of the uneven shape of the volcano. Its northwestern rim is higher that the southeastern one.
He is astonished by the calmness of the Galapagos creatures, and also by their uniqueness. He had not seen any of these species before; either in the coast of South America, nor in the islands offshore Africa. They seem to be just found in this isolated archipelago. New ideas begin to sprout in his mind.
The young man would like to stay longer in the Enchanted Islands, an endless source of wonder, but the ship he is on must sail west. On the 20th of October 1835, the HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos behind. Charles Darwin will never stop thinking about the origin of species after his visit to these islands.
It is October and a young naturalist walks along the shoreline of Santiago Island. The southern trade winds blow hard on his face while he collects barnacles and all kinds of other shells.
He looks at sugar loaf, the small tuff cone on the western side of the island, and he realizes that those winds must be the prevailing ones because of the uneven shape of the volcano. Its northwestern rim is higher that the southeastern one.
He is astonished by the calmness of the Galapagos creatures, and also by their uniqueness. He had not seen any of these species before; either in the coast of South America, nor in the islands offshore Africa. They seem to be just found in this isolated archipelago. New ideas begin to sprout in his mind.
The young man would like to stay longer in the Enchanted Islands, an endless source of wonder, but the ship he is on must sail west. On the 20th of October 1835, the HMS Beagle leaves Galapagos behind. Charles Darwin will never stop thinking about the origin of species after his visit to these islands.
