Floreana Island
Early before breakfast we arrived by Zodiac to Post Office Bay. This place was regularly visited by whalers in the late seventeen hundreds to supply themselves with water and giant tortoises. The barrel that we found this morning is probably not that different from the original one that has been used for centuries to pick up and deliver letters. Following the tradition, today we read the addresses and committed ourselves to the long journey to deliver them by hand, without using stamps, just like in the old times.
After breakfast, we had the opportunity to swim in one of the top snorkeling places in the World: Champion Islet. White tipped reef sharks, rays, sea turtles, Galápagos sea lions, and thousands of fish were eagerly waiting for us.
Just before lunch, we went back to Champion Islet, now all dried up and with binoculars and cameras in hand, to search for one of the rarest birds in the world, the Floreana mockingbird (common only on this small islet and on Gardner Islet, off the shore of Floreana Island). We were in good spirits for we found several of these rare birds!
In the afternoon we had plenty of choices: kayaking, swimming, snorkeling, and hiking. We disembarked on a green sand beach, made up of olivine or pteridote. On the walk we observed several Greater flamingoes and a big number of shore migrant species such as the Ruddy turnstone, Black-necked Stilts and Bahamas ducks, also known as White-cheeked ducks. It was a great afternoon with a beautiful sunset that put a golden finale to a wonderful day in this paradise.
Early before breakfast we arrived by Zodiac to Post Office Bay. This place was regularly visited by whalers in the late seventeen hundreds to supply themselves with water and giant tortoises. The barrel that we found this morning is probably not that different from the original one that has been used for centuries to pick up and deliver letters. Following the tradition, today we read the addresses and committed ourselves to the long journey to deliver them by hand, without using stamps, just like in the old times.
After breakfast, we had the opportunity to swim in one of the top snorkeling places in the World: Champion Islet. White tipped reef sharks, rays, sea turtles, Galápagos sea lions, and thousands of fish were eagerly waiting for us.
Just before lunch, we went back to Champion Islet, now all dried up and with binoculars and cameras in hand, to search for one of the rarest birds in the world, the Floreana mockingbird (common only on this small islet and on Gardner Islet, off the shore of Floreana Island). We were in good spirits for we found several of these rare birds!
In the afternoon we had plenty of choices: kayaking, swimming, snorkeling, and hiking. We disembarked on a green sand beach, made up of olivine or pteridote. On the walk we observed several Greater flamingoes and a big number of shore migrant species such as the Ruddy turnstone, Black-necked Stilts and Bahamas ducks, also known as White-cheeked ducks. It was a great afternoon with a beautiful sunset that put a golden finale to a wonderful day in this paradise.
