Santa Cruz Island
This is the picture of an inhabitant of Santa Cruz Island. It lives in the largest town of the Galápagos, Puerto Ayora, loves to have breakfast at the Charles Darwin Research Station shoreline, and it adores eating juicy and delicious Ulva, a kind of green algae. Sally light-foot crab is one of the most colorful species along the basaltic coastline, and one of the first creatures we encountered when we landed this morning. We had gone to Santa Cruz to meet famous tortoise Lonesome George and the land iguanas in the breeding center, but we had to stop to enjoy the beauty of this crustacean of the Galápagos, which has the same appetite for algae as our marine iguanas.
We went to the highlands in the afternoon, and also encountered some red animals, the vermillion flycatcher for example, which displayed a wonderful territorial flight above our heads. We admired the red in the leaves of quinine trees and in the flowers of flame trees.
Coming back to the shoreline to pick-up the Zodiacs that would ride us home, to Polaris, we found a few more “Sallies” having dinner, early dinner: more yummy green algae.
This is the picture of an inhabitant of Santa Cruz Island. It lives in the largest town of the Galápagos, Puerto Ayora, loves to have breakfast at the Charles Darwin Research Station shoreline, and it adores eating juicy and delicious Ulva, a kind of green algae. Sally light-foot crab is one of the most colorful species along the basaltic coastline, and one of the first creatures we encountered when we landed this morning. We had gone to Santa Cruz to meet famous tortoise Lonesome George and the land iguanas in the breeding center, but we had to stop to enjoy the beauty of this crustacean of the Galápagos, which has the same appetite for algae as our marine iguanas.
We went to the highlands in the afternoon, and also encountered some red animals, the vermillion flycatcher for example, which displayed a wonderful territorial flight above our heads. We admired the red in the leaves of quinine trees and in the flowers of flame trees.
Coming back to the shoreline to pick-up the Zodiacs that would ride us home, to Polaris, we found a few more “Sallies” having dinner, early dinner: more yummy green algae.