Bartolome & Santiago Islands
Today is the last day of our voyage through the Galápagos Islands. If I have to describe with one word my experiences this week, the chosen word would probably be “nature.” Of course, every single guest on board of the Polaris might come up with a different word to describe their own experiences, but I would bet that more than 99 % of them would be a superlative.
Every single day has been so different, that is hard to believe that we had move the ship only between islands and no between continents!
Today an early morning and optional pre-breakfast outing, took us to the island of Bartolome. Such a tiny island is full of things to see. This island is the real text book for geology in this archipelago. Several volcano-shaped hills surrounded us, giving us the sense of a true “landing on the moon” experience.
Our afternoon visit at the island of Santiago, one of the largest in the Galápagos and located not too far from Bartolome, was both impressive and majestic. Full of “tuff cones” this island had its last volcanic activity a little over a hundred years ago. The blackness of the lava flows surrounding us met the intense, dark blue color of the waters on Egas bay. The last walk on this archipelago brought us back intense memories from the past days. Sea lions, iguanas and lots of shore birds sightings were some of the guests’ highlights. As we took our Zodiacs to return on board, it was hard to see the island disappears on the darkness of the night. With the dark the night comes, and with it, the time to be among such enchanted creatures’ shorts out. Tomorrow some of you would say good bye to the islands in their physical form, however, the most of you would continuously visit the islands day after day with your pictures, your memories and when telling you friends about your experiences here. Galápagos is not a place to ever say good bye. It is a place to keep in your memory always and, whenever you need a thought that would make you happy, it would always be there to pull that smile, the same smile that I saw today when you saw a sea lion give you a wink…
Today is the last day of our voyage through the Galápagos Islands. If I have to describe with one word my experiences this week, the chosen word would probably be “nature.” Of course, every single guest on board of the Polaris might come up with a different word to describe their own experiences, but I would bet that more than 99 % of them would be a superlative.
Every single day has been so different, that is hard to believe that we had move the ship only between islands and no between continents!
Today an early morning and optional pre-breakfast outing, took us to the island of Bartolome. Such a tiny island is full of things to see. This island is the real text book for geology in this archipelago. Several volcano-shaped hills surrounded us, giving us the sense of a true “landing on the moon” experience.
Our afternoon visit at the island of Santiago, one of the largest in the Galápagos and located not too far from Bartolome, was both impressive and majestic. Full of “tuff cones” this island had its last volcanic activity a little over a hundred years ago. The blackness of the lava flows surrounding us met the intense, dark blue color of the waters on Egas bay. The last walk on this archipelago brought us back intense memories from the past days. Sea lions, iguanas and lots of shore birds sightings were some of the guests’ highlights. As we took our Zodiacs to return on board, it was hard to see the island disappears on the darkness of the night. With the dark the night comes, and with it, the time to be among such enchanted creatures’ shorts out. Tomorrow some of you would say good bye to the islands in their physical form, however, the most of you would continuously visit the islands day after day with your pictures, your memories and when telling you friends about your experiences here. Galápagos is not a place to ever say good bye. It is a place to keep in your memory always and, whenever you need a thought that would make you happy, it would always be there to pull that smile, the same smile that I saw today when you saw a sea lion give you a wink…
