Floreana Island
Galapagos gives opportunities to enjoy trails on land as well as water activities. We take trips on our glass bottom boat, and we swim and snorkel. Snorkeling is one the activities our guests enjoy the most and today Champion, a tiny islet just off the northeastern coast of Floreana, was at the best that can be. It is a treat to be in the water with a large number of fish species everywhere our eye can see: white-tipped reef sharks, angelfish, parrotfish and many more. And of course who can forget our performing sea lions as they put on an unbelievable show for us? It is this interaction across the barrier of species that is probably the most impacting aspect of a visit to the Galapagos. I personally think that by now they hope to see us every Monday and have fun, which is part of their life cycle.
In the afternoon we went to shore to visit an area called Punta Cormorant, which offers a high degree of endemic species of angiosperms, or flowering plants, like members of the Asteracea family. But we also saw some flamingoes, black-necked stilts and other shore birds wading in a brackish lagoon, hard at work feeding. As we left the spectacular “Flour Beach,” a turtle nesting area our trail eventually led us to, and started heading back to the Polaris, we were already dreaming of more things to come.
Galapagos gives opportunities to enjoy trails on land as well as water activities. We take trips on our glass bottom boat, and we swim and snorkel. Snorkeling is one the activities our guests enjoy the most and today Champion, a tiny islet just off the northeastern coast of Floreana, was at the best that can be. It is a treat to be in the water with a large number of fish species everywhere our eye can see: white-tipped reef sharks, angelfish, parrotfish and many more. And of course who can forget our performing sea lions as they put on an unbelievable show for us? It is this interaction across the barrier of species that is probably the most impacting aspect of a visit to the Galapagos. I personally think that by now they hope to see us every Monday and have fun, which is part of their life cycle.
In the afternoon we went to shore to visit an area called Punta Cormorant, which offers a high degree of endemic species of angiosperms, or flowering plants, like members of the Asteracea family. But we also saw some flamingoes, black-necked stilts and other shore birds wading in a brackish lagoon, hard at work feeding. As we left the spectacular “Flour Beach,” a turtle nesting area our trail eventually led us to, and started heading back to the Polaris, we were already dreaming of more things to come.
