Española Island
What else can you ask for…
Visiting the Galapagos Islands is a totally different experience, something that you never forget. Everyday has its own touch and every island is different. Today we disembarked in one of the oldest islands of the archipelago: Española Island also called Hood Island. We had the great opportunity to see blue-footed boobies very close, so close that they were nesting right there in the trail. Some of them were courting, and some of them were sitting on their nests. Something different was that several were sitting on blue eggs – can you imagine it!
We spent our time walking very slowly along the shore for about an hour and at one point we observed a nice geological formation called the “blow hole”. When we were close to it we saw the endemic albatross from Galapagos flying and some of them were trying to take of from the cliff. These birds are very heavy; at more than 8 pounds it is very difficult for them to take off from land. Instead, they have to walk to the edge of the cliff and jump to take off.
We had other interesting occurrences during our afternoon water activities. We took the Zodiacs, and some people decided go to the beach, some to the glass bottom boat and some to deep-water snorkel. We snorkeled around an island called the marine Turtle Island, where we saw many underwater creatures. We saw fish all around us; tropical fish like Sergeant majors, Moorish idols, and some more. It was excellent. After the snorkel we disembarked on a beautiful white sand beach, so fine that we call it flour beach. The beach was covered with sea lions and some of us had the chance to swim with them.
Tomorrow we expect to swim with white tip reef sharks. Let’s see.
What else can you ask for…
Visiting the Galapagos Islands is a totally different experience, something that you never forget. Everyday has its own touch and every island is different. Today we disembarked in one of the oldest islands of the archipelago: Española Island also called Hood Island. We had the great opportunity to see blue-footed boobies very close, so close that they were nesting right there in the trail. Some of them were courting, and some of them were sitting on their nests. Something different was that several were sitting on blue eggs – can you imagine it!
We spent our time walking very slowly along the shore for about an hour and at one point we observed a nice geological formation called the “blow hole”. When we were close to it we saw the endemic albatross from Galapagos flying and some of them were trying to take of from the cliff. These birds are very heavy; at more than 8 pounds it is very difficult for them to take off from land. Instead, they have to walk to the edge of the cliff and jump to take off.
We had other interesting occurrences during our afternoon water activities. We took the Zodiacs, and some people decided go to the beach, some to the glass bottom boat and some to deep-water snorkel. We snorkeled around an island called the marine Turtle Island, where we saw many underwater creatures. We saw fish all around us; tropical fish like Sergeant majors, Moorish idols, and some more. It was excellent. After the snorkel we disembarked on a beautiful white sand beach, so fine that we call it flour beach. The beach was covered with sea lions and some of us had the chance to swim with them.
Tomorrow we expect to swim with white tip reef sharks. Let’s see.
