Isabela Island
Today we were exploring the western most islands of this Archipelago. We started early in the morning circumnavigating Roca Redonda, which is a true heaven for sea birds. Flocks of Audubon’s shearwaters, storm petrels, brown noddy terns, were all feeding. Later on we kept our course toward Ecuador volcano, which is actually what is left of a shield volcano. Before we got to see its collapsed caldera, the king of the oceans, King Neptune himself, asked us to sacrifice the youngest guests aboard as their punishment for crossing the Equator line. Their only sacrifice however was to dress up as pirates and drink iguana blood.
During the panga ride along the coast of Isabela Island one of the Zodiacs got to experience something unique, which occurs perhaps once in a blue moon. A baby marine iguana was swimming along the coast. A panga happened to be right there, in the right place at the right time, so guest what, the iguana climbed to the panga. But that was not enough for this uninhibited creature. It also climbed onto the guest’s shoulder, as you can see in the picture, and then again to the back of another guest. It was amazing!
You might have read on last week’s web report that in the same area we had a larger iguana hitching a ride on a Zodiac. So it seems that we have an iguana charm! Maybe they are telling each other to pay us a visit when the Polaris Zodiacs cruise along the beautiful coastline of Isabela Island.
Today we were exploring the western most islands of this Archipelago. We started early in the morning circumnavigating Roca Redonda, which is a true heaven for sea birds. Flocks of Audubon’s shearwaters, storm petrels, brown noddy terns, were all feeding. Later on we kept our course toward Ecuador volcano, which is actually what is left of a shield volcano. Before we got to see its collapsed caldera, the king of the oceans, King Neptune himself, asked us to sacrifice the youngest guests aboard as their punishment for crossing the Equator line. Their only sacrifice however was to dress up as pirates and drink iguana blood.
During the panga ride along the coast of Isabela Island one of the Zodiacs got to experience something unique, which occurs perhaps once in a blue moon. A baby marine iguana was swimming along the coast. A panga happened to be right there, in the right place at the right time, so guest what, the iguana climbed to the panga. But that was not enough for this uninhibited creature. It also climbed onto the guest’s shoulder, as you can see in the picture, and then again to the back of another guest. It was amazing!
You might have read on last week’s web report that in the same area we had a larger iguana hitching a ride on a Zodiac. So it seems that we have an iguana charm! Maybe they are telling each other to pay us a visit when the Polaris Zodiacs cruise along the beautiful coastline of Isabela Island.
