Floreana and Isabela Islands
Today we had a wonderful time visiting Floreana and Isabela Islands. Floreana was very well known in the past for whalers, buccaneers, and also the first settlers of this archipelago arrived to this island. Now days it is known as the mystery island for a group of people that disappeared without leaving any trace on the 1920s.
Isabela is well known for the wonderful landscapes and new volcanic eruptions. It is one of the youngest and more active islands in this archipelago, formed by the eruption of six different volcanoes that made up an island sixty miles long. One of the volcanoes dropped so much lava that it became the highest peak in Galápagos with almost six thousand feet in height. All these volcanoes are seating on the Galápagos platform at a depth of nine thousand feet deep.
On Isabela Island, we visited the breeding center of giant tortoises, where we saw some about a hundred years old and some only a few months old. The people from the Galápagos National Park are so efficient taking care of these amazing creatures; they give them the opportunity to live free and safe of the many introduced species. Nowadays they are ready to repatriate a number close to tree thousand baby tortoises to the wild.
They are still protecting the eggs and the babies until the population comes back to normal numbers. We saw in this center this six months old baby tortoise; she is a female and its code number is two. I hope this one survives and lives at least a couple of hundred years that is the life expectancy of a Galápagos giant tortoise.
Today we had a wonderful time visiting Floreana and Isabela Islands. Floreana was very well known in the past for whalers, buccaneers, and also the first settlers of this archipelago arrived to this island. Now days it is known as the mystery island for a group of people that disappeared without leaving any trace on the 1920s.
Isabela is well known for the wonderful landscapes and new volcanic eruptions. It is one of the youngest and more active islands in this archipelago, formed by the eruption of six different volcanoes that made up an island sixty miles long. One of the volcanoes dropped so much lava that it became the highest peak in Galápagos with almost six thousand feet in height. All these volcanoes are seating on the Galápagos platform at a depth of nine thousand feet deep.
On Isabela Island, we visited the breeding center of giant tortoises, where we saw some about a hundred years old and some only a few months old. The people from the Galápagos National Park are so efficient taking care of these amazing creatures; they give them the opportunity to live free and safe of the many introduced species. Nowadays they are ready to repatriate a number close to tree thousand baby tortoises to the wild.
They are still protecting the eggs and the babies until the population comes back to normal numbers. We saw in this center this six months old baby tortoise; she is a female and its code number is two. I hope this one survives and lives at least a couple of hundred years that is the life expectancy of a Galápagos giant tortoise.
