Golfo Dulce and Casa Orquideas
We left behind the area of Drake bay and Corcovado, navigating 60 nautical miles into Golfo Dulce. This gulf has the deepest point at 600 feet and this makes it one of the deepest in the world.
After an amazing sunrise, a stretching session at the sundeck and a delightful breakfast, we headed to our first activities in the morning. Exploring by Zodiac and kayaking in the river mouth of Rio Rincon were our interest. Exploring the mangroves and riparian forest, gave us the opportunity to view special birdlife such as: white ibis, royal and sandwich terns, mangrove black hawk and little blue heron among others; some reptiles including common slider turtles and pacific basilisk lizards.
The increasing temperatures by noon made us choose for a quick jump from the fan tail of the Sea Voyager and reload our body’s energy for a lecture by Professor Bruce Simonson about geology and plate tectonics.
In the afternoon, we reposition and anchored in front of Casa Orquideas, a lovely botanical garden surrounded by a pristine lowland wet forest. Casa Orquideas is the home of Ron and Trudy MacAllister, a couple of North Americans that within 70 acres of land, they have possession of an extraordinary collection of both native and exotic plants. By 5:30 p.m we returned to the ship and we headed to our next destination Panama.
We left behind the area of Drake bay and Corcovado, navigating 60 nautical miles into Golfo Dulce. This gulf has the deepest point at 600 feet and this makes it one of the deepest in the world.
After an amazing sunrise, a stretching session at the sundeck and a delightful breakfast, we headed to our first activities in the morning. Exploring by Zodiac and kayaking in the river mouth of Rio Rincon were our interest. Exploring the mangroves and riparian forest, gave us the opportunity to view special birdlife such as: white ibis, royal and sandwich terns, mangrove black hawk and little blue heron among others; some reptiles including common slider turtles and pacific basilisk lizards.
The increasing temperatures by noon made us choose for a quick jump from the fan tail of the Sea Voyager and reload our body’s energy for a lecture by Professor Bruce Simonson about geology and plate tectonics.
In the afternoon, we reposition and anchored in front of Casa Orquideas, a lovely botanical garden surrounded by a pristine lowland wet forest. Casa Orquideas is the home of Ron and Trudy MacAllister, a couple of North Americans that within 70 acres of land, they have possession of an extraordinary collection of both native and exotic plants. By 5:30 p.m we returned to the ship and we headed to our next destination Panama.
