Isabela & Fernandina Islands
Our navigation took us to the westernmost part of the Galápagos archipelago where the upwelling current of Cromwell brings nutrients to the surface where a plentiful amount of creatures depend on it. The fog made it hard to see further than a couple of hundred yards, giving a visual allusion to the mysteries and legends of the islands described a few centuries ago by whalers and buccaneers in the enchanted islands where giant reptiles dominated the landscape. Time did not pass through the islands and we still observed marine creatures, like the three orcas in a feeding behavior right after we crossed the Equator line. It was a great sighting where we observed baby orca learning from its mom how to get food.
We dropped anchor at Punta Vicente Roca, on the lower lip of the snout of the seahorse-shaped island called Isabela. From panga we observed Mola molas, green sea turtles, flightless cormorants, Galápagos penguins, large marine iguanas, Galápagos fur seals, and more. It is incredible the diversity of life that can be found on barren volcanic rocks when we got close enough and observe how much they evolved to adapt in such conditions.
The walk in the afternoon was totally outstanding. To walk over lava rocks in Fernandina Island after a panga ride gave us an idea of how the species evolved to adapt in this volcanic archipelago, where it was not possible to fail. An example is to find marine iguanas by the thousands basking onshore. The sunset was one of the greatest things that we experienced, of course, besides the wildlife.
Our navigation took us to the westernmost part of the Galápagos archipelago where the upwelling current of Cromwell brings nutrients to the surface where a plentiful amount of creatures depend on it. The fog made it hard to see further than a couple of hundred yards, giving a visual allusion to the mysteries and legends of the islands described a few centuries ago by whalers and buccaneers in the enchanted islands where giant reptiles dominated the landscape. Time did not pass through the islands and we still observed marine creatures, like the three orcas in a feeding behavior right after we crossed the Equator line. It was a great sighting where we observed baby orca learning from its mom how to get food.
We dropped anchor at Punta Vicente Roca, on the lower lip of the snout of the seahorse-shaped island called Isabela. From panga we observed Mola molas, green sea turtles, flightless cormorants, Galápagos penguins, large marine iguanas, Galápagos fur seals, and more. It is incredible the diversity of life that can be found on barren volcanic rocks when we got close enough and observe how much they evolved to adapt in such conditions.
The walk in the afternoon was totally outstanding. To walk over lava rocks in Fernandina Island after a panga ride gave us an idea of how the species evolved to adapt in this volcanic archipelago, where it was not possible to fail. An example is to find marine iguanas by the thousands basking onshore. The sunset was one of the greatest things that we experienced, of course, besides the wildlife.
