Floreana Island
Floreana (flores, or flowers), as it’s name implies: an island very pleasant to any eyes. The very many volcanoes - over fifty of them - makes a very special place. Floreana, as every very pretty place has an enchanted or mystic quality, something you can feel in the air, but nobody knows what it is.
It is the only place in Galápagos where you can see flamingos all year round, the place where we disembark has brown and green sand. A few feet away, there is a beautiful white sand beach, and plenty of different animals along the same one.
Probably, Floreana is the very first place in the Galápagos where dehydrated sailors could find a back-to-life experience: finding fresh water in the volcanoes and tasty land tortoises. Later visited by very famous people, some left a big footpath behind, for others would be enticed to come in the future and follow them, such as: Sir Francis Drake, Capt Dampier. Capt Cook, Capt James Collnet, Charles Darwin, David Porter (who adopted a little boy from Cuba, the same one who became the first vice-almirant of the USA Navy), David Glasgow Farragut, an many more.
It is an island with rich human stories of many who came to the Galápagos hundreds of years before - an island that in the beginning of its formation had a lot activity, big explosions throwing copious amounts of hot lava all over the place, burning what ever was around. An island that's been its own master - who knows for how many thousands of years.
Floreana (flores, or flowers), as it’s name implies: an island very pleasant to any eyes. The very many volcanoes - over fifty of them - makes a very special place. Floreana, as every very pretty place has an enchanted or mystic quality, something you can feel in the air, but nobody knows what it is.
It is the only place in Galápagos where you can see flamingos all year round, the place where we disembark has brown and green sand. A few feet away, there is a beautiful white sand beach, and plenty of different animals along the same one.
Probably, Floreana is the very first place in the Galápagos where dehydrated sailors could find a back-to-life experience: finding fresh water in the volcanoes and tasty land tortoises. Later visited by very famous people, some left a big footpath behind, for others would be enticed to come in the future and follow them, such as: Sir Francis Drake, Capt Dampier. Capt Cook, Capt James Collnet, Charles Darwin, David Porter (who adopted a little boy from Cuba, the same one who became the first vice-almirant of the USA Navy), David Glasgow Farragut, an many more.
It is an island with rich human stories of many who came to the Galápagos hundreds of years before - an island that in the beginning of its formation had a lot activity, big explosions throwing copious amounts of hot lava all over the place, burning what ever was around. An island that's been its own master - who knows for how many thousands of years.
