Española Island
The National Geographic Polaris dropped anchor at the southeasternmost island of the Galápagos Archipelago, what we call a dying volcano; the first one to have been born in the last five million years and that is already heading towards the South American continent, to subside underneath this huge continent.
It has been home to many animals and plants for many years that enabled them to change and become new species or varieties found nowhere else in the entire world. This island is home to many sea birds such as Nazca Boobies, blue-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, red-billed tropicbirds, Galápagos shearwaters and others.
We have been delighted with such a richness of wildlife here to an extent that makes us think that we are in a real paradise. I wish I was a bird, so that I could fly hundreds of miles away… northwards? southwards? I really do not know, but I would wish to find another paradise just as pristine as this one. I think that we can have our own paradise just around our backyard if we just have as much respect to wildlife in other places, as we have it here. Here in the Galápagos things seem to have been suspended in time, animals do not only come close, but they come to introduce themselves showing no fear of human beings.
We have finished our day, but the experiences we had are going to be in our memories forever and ever.
