Bartolomé & Santiago Islands
Sunrise today was beyond wonderful; the majestic view of Bartolomé Island was just impressive. The early walkers started landing on a concrete jetty and found an open book of geology, besides the lunar surface we found very nice spatter cones, lava flows, and pioneer vegetation as lava cacti and tiquilia, which make one spectacular garden at the top of the summit, which has an altitude of 359 ft, after 372 steps; some people in the photo group landed at the beach and walked from the northern beach to the southern beach. We came back on board to the Polaris and we got breakfast; we prepared all the snorkeling gear to land once again at the golden beach of Bartolomé Island where the snorkeling was amazing.
The Polaris started to pull the anchor a little before lunch, in order to visit Santiago Island. The weather was great and the landscape of Santiago Island fantastic. Santiago Island is the adopted island of Lindblad Expeditions, which we have helped to preserve and restore since 1997. We anchored at Puerto Egas at 3pm, the snorkelers prepared for the last snorkeling in the Galápagos, and at 4 pm most of the guests started to land at the black beach of Puerto Egas, in order to walk through this exotic island where we found a colony of Galápagos fur seals, which are amazing to see. The day finished with a perfect sunset.
Sunrise today was beyond wonderful; the majestic view of Bartolomé Island was just impressive. The early walkers started landing on a concrete jetty and found an open book of geology, besides the lunar surface we found very nice spatter cones, lava flows, and pioneer vegetation as lava cacti and tiquilia, which make one spectacular garden at the top of the summit, which has an altitude of 359 ft, after 372 steps; some people in the photo group landed at the beach and walked from the northern beach to the southern beach. We came back on board to the Polaris and we got breakfast; we prepared all the snorkeling gear to land once again at the golden beach of Bartolomé Island where the snorkeling was amazing.
The Polaris started to pull the anchor a little before lunch, in order to visit Santiago Island. The weather was great and the landscape of Santiago Island fantastic. Santiago Island is the adopted island of Lindblad Expeditions, which we have helped to preserve and restore since 1997. We anchored at Puerto Egas at 3pm, the snorkelers prepared for the last snorkeling in the Galápagos, and at 4 pm most of the guests started to land at the black beach of Puerto Egas, in order to walk through this exotic island where we found a colony of Galápagos fur seals, which are amazing to see. The day finished with a perfect sunset.
