Bartolome & Santiago Islands
Our last full day in this wonderful archipelago called Galápagos.
We started by disembarking in Bartolome, an island which is known by naturalists as “an open book of geology”; 375 steps from a staircase takes us up to the most dramatic landscape; craters, lava-flows, volcanic ash, tubes, channels and tunnels are just a few “frozen” features to be distinguished on this outing.
Back on board, we ate our breakfast and went off for water activities around the world famous pinnacle rock. Some of us were rewarded with swimming penguins among many underwater creatures, some of us picked up a towel and mainly sun bathed under the equatorial sun.
The Polaris repositions while our expedition leader Paula, debriefs us for tomorrows departure procedures, once done, we turned the page on logistics for good as we continued with lunch and our expedition by disembarking in Santiago Island.
There is an outstanding black sandy beach which provided us with a great snorkel and soon after, a walk to the “grottos” for fur-seals and many more animals.
On this second picture two of our guests and crew members from our ships had a football game. This infectious drive to co-exist, like our blue-footed boobies next to iguanas and sally light foot crabs, like sea lions among mocking birds; for our guests to have a good time with the locals, is a magic mist which surrounds us while isolated on this enchanted place.
Galápagos is a very hard place to define when it comes to these mysterious feelings; my dear reader, you just have to be here to understand it.
Our guests are leaving us tomorrow, but their lives will never be the same, they are our family, our ambassadors, we all know they will have this expedition in their hearts for a life-time.
Our last full day in this wonderful archipelago called Galápagos.
We started by disembarking in Bartolome, an island which is known by naturalists as “an open book of geology”; 375 steps from a staircase takes us up to the most dramatic landscape; craters, lava-flows, volcanic ash, tubes, channels and tunnels are just a few “frozen” features to be distinguished on this outing.
Back on board, we ate our breakfast and went off for water activities around the world famous pinnacle rock. Some of us were rewarded with swimming penguins among many underwater creatures, some of us picked up a towel and mainly sun bathed under the equatorial sun.
The Polaris repositions while our expedition leader Paula, debriefs us for tomorrows departure procedures, once done, we turned the page on logistics for good as we continued with lunch and our expedition by disembarking in Santiago Island.
There is an outstanding black sandy beach which provided us with a great snorkel and soon after, a walk to the “grottos” for fur-seals and many more animals.
On this second picture two of our guests and crew members from our ships had a football game. This infectious drive to co-exist, like our blue-footed boobies next to iguanas and sally light foot crabs, like sea lions among mocking birds; for our guests to have a good time with the locals, is a magic mist which surrounds us while isolated on this enchanted place.
Galápagos is a very hard place to define when it comes to these mysterious feelings; my dear reader, you just have to be here to understand it.
Our guests are leaving us tomorrow, but their lives will never be the same, they are our family, our ambassadors, we all know they will have this expedition in their hearts for a life-time.
