Bartolome and Santiago Islands
This is the last day of a wonderful week in Galápagos, a week where we have experienced amazing sightings, but above all, a week of friendship and of love for nature. We have felt pretty close to each other, to guests, to the crew and to all members of the staff. That’s why we decided to make this report the six of us, to put on paper (on screen) the great many feelings of being part of this fabulous team, the privilege of walking in a world of innocence and pristine ness, and of coming back home to Polaris to our friends as close as FAMILY.
FAMILY we enjoy sharing our encounters in Galápagos with. Our outings today were astonishing, visiting the central area of the islands Bartolome and Santiago. In the morning, the climb to the top of Bartolome was as spectacular as it can be with its wonderful volcanic landscapes known worldwide, that remind us of the origin of the Galápagos ARCHIPELAGO.
ARCHIPELAGO is nature’s ideal experimental place to understand evolution. Once the islands were formed - and they are still being formed - different species of plants and animals arrived, and tried to make themselves comfortable to the environmental conditions that were offered. Furthermore, some of the evolution’s assistants helped: isolation and natural SELECTION.
SELECTION might also work in our fate, for there are few of us who can experience days like today, checking the development of life in the hostile environment like that one on Santiago. Sunny afternoon on the dry forest, the Palo Santo trees are still showing no leaves. Finches were more numerous than last week, and some Small Ground finches accompanied us along the trail we followed to get to the Fur Seal grottos. Most of the fur seals were into cracks in the lava, in the shade. Following the breeze, we looked to the ocean in hope for a whale, but it is not the season yet, they are still far into the open OCEAN.
OCEAN should be the name of our planet. In fact three quarters of it is just water the cradle of life and as such deserves respect, consideration and conservation, our lives are tied to this generous world. Any living form on this planet needs water for life and, even the most remote corner on this planet benefits itself from the world ocean. Time to take wise decisions, we are running out of home and as far as we know the only place where life exists at all, otherwise our future generations won’t have as home this blue floating jewel, the only attractive sphere suspended in the dark stellar VOID.
This is the last day of a wonderful week in Galápagos, a week where we have experienced amazing sightings, but above all, a week of friendship and of love for nature. We have felt pretty close to each other, to guests, to the crew and to all members of the staff. That’s why we decided to make this report the six of us, to put on paper (on screen) the great many feelings of being part of this fabulous team, the privilege of walking in a world of innocence and pristine ness, and of coming back home to Polaris to our friends as close as FAMILY.
FAMILY we enjoy sharing our encounters in Galápagos with. Our outings today were astonishing, visiting the central area of the islands Bartolome and Santiago. In the morning, the climb to the top of Bartolome was as spectacular as it can be with its wonderful volcanic landscapes known worldwide, that remind us of the origin of the Galápagos ARCHIPELAGO.
ARCHIPELAGO is nature’s ideal experimental place to understand evolution. Once the islands were formed - and they are still being formed - different species of plants and animals arrived, and tried to make themselves comfortable to the environmental conditions that were offered. Furthermore, some of the evolution’s assistants helped: isolation and natural SELECTION.
SELECTION might also work in our fate, for there are few of us who can experience days like today, checking the development of life in the hostile environment like that one on Santiago. Sunny afternoon on the dry forest, the Palo Santo trees are still showing no leaves. Finches were more numerous than last week, and some Small Ground finches accompanied us along the trail we followed to get to the Fur Seal grottos. Most of the fur seals were into cracks in the lava, in the shade. Following the breeze, we looked to the ocean in hope for a whale, but it is not the season yet, they are still far into the open OCEAN.
OCEAN should be the name of our planet. In fact three quarters of it is just water the cradle of life and as such deserves respect, consideration and conservation, our lives are tied to this generous world. Any living form on this planet needs water for life and, even the most remote corner on this planet benefits itself from the world ocean. Time to take wise decisions, we are running out of home and as far as we know the only place where life exists at all, otherwise our future generations won’t have as home this blue floating jewel, the only attractive sphere suspended in the dark stellar VOID.
