Floreana Island
Floreana Island is a place with a rich human history from the whalers, pirates, and the early settlers – this episode began in the early nineteen hundreds. And this morning we had the opportunity to visit the Post Office Bay. This place was used by whalers at the beginning of the eighteen hundreds for three main reasons: the first one was for repairing their ships, the second one was for collecting giant tortoises as food source, and probably the most important reason was to drop letters to be collected by whalers that would be taken home and hand delivered. And this morning we kept this tradition alive. With an optional wake-up call, we disembarked to drop our postcard with the hope that they will be picked up by other adventures. And at the same time we collected postcards with the challenge of hand delivering them and possibly making some new friends.
We continued our activities on the satellite island of Champion, just off the coast of Floreana Island. The first activity was a ride in National Geographic Endeavour’s glass-bottom boat. We followed the boat ride with deep- and shallow-water snorkeling. Our final morning activity was a Zodiac ride at the same location, and this time our main interest was in finding the Floreana mocking bird and many other seabirds. Some of our guests enjoyed doing as many activities as possible.
By the afternoon we had two rounds of kayaking, which we followed with a presentation given by National Geographic Photographer Brian Skerry in the Main Lounge. By 4pm, we disembarked at a beautiful green sandy beach for an easy stroll. Our goal was to find a Pacific green sea turtle nesting site, at this time of the year they are hutching making finding them likely. Along the way we also saw a brackish lagoon which provides food for lagoon birds.
All activities were at their best – we saw a lot of tropical fish, frigate birds, sea lions, blue-footed boobies, frigate, mocking birds, tropical birds and many others Galápagos animals during our special day in the enchanted archipelago.
- Daily Expedition Reports
- 26 Jul 2010
From the National Geographic Endeavour in Galápagos, 7/26/2010, National Geographic Endeavour
- Aboard the National Geographic Endeavour
- Galápagos
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