Bartolomé & Santiago Islands
Today we started our activities a little early. We wanted to enjoy as much as possible our last full day discovering the wonderful ecosystem of the Galápagos Islands. We landed on a very beautiful island called Bartolomé, an open book of geology. The landscape is stunning; we reached 114 meters above sea level from a very nice look out point! We took many pictures and the light was perfect; we arrived just in time to see the sun rising. After our walk to the summit of the island we went back for a well deserved breakfast and later in the morning we continued with our activities. We did some snorkelling in calm turquoise waters off the beach of Bartolomé Island; the diversity of marine life in this site was great.
Some of us went on a short hike across the island on sand dunes where we found a second beach that was full of life. Here the highlights were the brown pelicans nesting. We could see the chicks on the nests from very close; white tipped reef sharks and penguins also were seen from the beach.
In the afternoon after our lunch we set sail to Puerto Egas, a nice bay located on the north western part of Santiago Island. We landed on a black sandy beach where our guests were offered the possibility of doing a great snorkeling and a wonderful walk along the coastal part of Puerto Egas.
Our photography group had a great time taking good pictures. In this site we encountered sea birds fishing, Galápagos sea lions and fur seals resting on lava fields and during the walk you could see some of the volcanoes of Isabela Island very close. We left the island at the sun down and when they were boarding the Zodiacs we still had guests in the water snorkeling as they did not want to leave they were so amazed with the marine life of Puerto Egas! Some of them had blue lips after being almost for two hours snorkeling.
Finally everyone went back on board, a little sad because they were leaving us tomorrow but most of them have the hope of coming back some day to these magical islands that will stay in their hearts for ever.
Today we started our activities a little early. We wanted to enjoy as much as possible our last full day discovering the wonderful ecosystem of the Galápagos Islands. We landed on a very beautiful island called Bartolomé, an open book of geology. The landscape is stunning; we reached 114 meters above sea level from a very nice look out point! We took many pictures and the light was perfect; we arrived just in time to see the sun rising. After our walk to the summit of the island we went back for a well deserved breakfast and later in the morning we continued with our activities. We did some snorkelling in calm turquoise waters off the beach of Bartolomé Island; the diversity of marine life in this site was great.
Some of us went on a short hike across the island on sand dunes where we found a second beach that was full of life. Here the highlights were the brown pelicans nesting. We could see the chicks on the nests from very close; white tipped reef sharks and penguins also were seen from the beach.
In the afternoon after our lunch we set sail to Puerto Egas, a nice bay located on the north western part of Santiago Island. We landed on a black sandy beach where our guests were offered the possibility of doing a great snorkeling and a wonderful walk along the coastal part of Puerto Egas.
Our photography group had a great time taking good pictures. In this site we encountered sea birds fishing, Galápagos sea lions and fur seals resting on lava fields and during the walk you could see some of the volcanoes of Isabela Island very close. We left the island at the sun down and when they were boarding the Zodiacs we still had guests in the water snorkeling as they did not want to leave they were so amazed with the marine life of Puerto Egas! Some of them had blue lips after being almost for two hours snorkeling.
Finally everyone went back on board, a little sad because they were leaving us tomorrow but most of them have the hope of coming back some day to these magical islands that will stay in their hearts for ever.
