Floreana Island
Today we visited the post office barrel, a place that has a historical tradition since 1793 when a captain of the British royal navy visited this remote group of islands. He found good hunting grounds for commercial whaling encouraging people involve in this activity to come. The barrel was a way to keep in touch with their families, while they were away for many years in a row. The tradition continues and consists in picking up the letters to hand deliver them. Today we did the same with postcards maintaining this tradition alive. In the way back to the ship our guests had the first glimpse of Galápagos Penguins, small charming birds being the third smallest species on earth and in the same time the most equatorial one, found only in this majestic archipelago.
After breakfast we went to explore the realm of the Galápagos sea lions were we had a lot of fun swimming with these playful creatures displaying acrobatic marine ballet, the water temperature was seventy five Fahrenheit and thousands of multicolor fish appeared in front of our eyes in a world that in the past represented a challenge, not any more as our guests can explore it either by snorkeling or from the glass bottom boat. We got to observe ancient creatures whose skeletons are made up from cartilage. We got to see white tipped reef sharks, marbled sting rays and manta rays.
We weighed anchor and our next destination was Punta Cormorant. Kayakers went to explore the shore of the mystery island of Floreana while some of our guests decided to swim from the green sand beach rich in olivine. Later on everybody disembarked for the walk. We visited one of the lagoons of the Galápagos where we found around fifty flamingos few yards apart from penguins. We crossed Punta Cormorant and we found a green sea turtle nesting before sunset time, a business that could take several hours. We came back onboard hoping that in a couple of months around a hundred baby turtles will race to the ocean.
Today we visited the post office barrel, a place that has a historical tradition since 1793 when a captain of the British royal navy visited this remote group of islands. He found good hunting grounds for commercial whaling encouraging people involve in this activity to come. The barrel was a way to keep in touch with their families, while they were away for many years in a row. The tradition continues and consists in picking up the letters to hand deliver them. Today we did the same with postcards maintaining this tradition alive. In the way back to the ship our guests had the first glimpse of Galápagos Penguins, small charming birds being the third smallest species on earth and in the same time the most equatorial one, found only in this majestic archipelago.
After breakfast we went to explore the realm of the Galápagos sea lions were we had a lot of fun swimming with these playful creatures displaying acrobatic marine ballet, the water temperature was seventy five Fahrenheit and thousands of multicolor fish appeared in front of our eyes in a world that in the past represented a challenge, not any more as our guests can explore it either by snorkeling or from the glass bottom boat. We got to observe ancient creatures whose skeletons are made up from cartilage. We got to see white tipped reef sharks, marbled sting rays and manta rays.
We weighed anchor and our next destination was Punta Cormorant. Kayakers went to explore the shore of the mystery island of Floreana while some of our guests decided to swim from the green sand beach rich in olivine. Later on everybody disembarked for the walk. We visited one of the lagoons of the Galápagos where we found around fifty flamingos few yards apart from penguins. We crossed Punta Cormorant and we found a green sea turtle nesting before sunset time, a business that could take several hours. We came back onboard hoping that in a couple of months around a hundred baby turtles will race to the ocean.
