Bartolome Island
What enables the visitors to have a great trip around the Galapagos Islands is the fact that species here are easier to see and their behavior easier to observe. This is due to both their innocence and the fact they inhabit a simplistic ecosystem. At the end of each trip, all our guests return home with memories of experiences that range from the lurid to the profound, and of encounters with both the stereotypical and the unexpected.
During this week we saw five different species of cetaceans (an all-time high!): Bryde’s, fin, and blue whales, bottle-nosed and striped dolphins. Other extraordinary sightings included five hunting short-eared owls and five species of mating birds (penguins, blue-footed boobies, red-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and, the ones in the picture, great blue herons). It seems to me that the coincidence in the number is a sign! It just happens the Polaris is celebrating her fifth year cruising this corner of the beautiful, sparkling Pacific Ocean.
Finally, I would like to say that this is what learning is all about, going where the action is, going to the original source, and the best way to do it is in one adventurous, week-long odyssey through the volcanic Galapagos Islands.
What enables the visitors to have a great trip around the Galapagos Islands is the fact that species here are easier to see and their behavior easier to observe. This is due to both their innocence and the fact they inhabit a simplistic ecosystem. At the end of each trip, all our guests return home with memories of experiences that range from the lurid to the profound, and of encounters with both the stereotypical and the unexpected.
During this week we saw five different species of cetaceans (an all-time high!): Bryde’s, fin, and blue whales, bottle-nosed and striped dolphins. Other extraordinary sightings included five hunting short-eared owls and five species of mating birds (penguins, blue-footed boobies, red-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and, the ones in the picture, great blue herons). It seems to me that the coincidence in the number is a sign! It just happens the Polaris is celebrating her fifth year cruising this corner of the beautiful, sparkling Pacific Ocean.
Finally, I would like to say that this is what learning is all about, going where the action is, going to the original source, and the best way to do it is in one adventurous, week-long odyssey through the volcanic Galapagos Islands.
