Bartolome and Santiago Islands
We started our day with a walk to the top of Bartolome island before breakfast, and along the trail we could view several geological formations. Once we got to the lookout point at the summit of the island we experienced an incredible landscape, all the spatter cones and the different colors on the rocks in contrast with the green vegetation of the beach gave us the impression that this island was just formed yesterday.
Later in the morning after breakfast we went to the same island’s golden beach where we could snorkel, swim along he pinnacle rock, some of us decided to walk on a sandy trail that takes you to another beach; here they saw pelicans nesting, sea turtle’s nests and a school of sharks swimming along the beach.
We ended our morning looking at a Galápagos hawk (see photo), one of the most important predators of the islands while it was catching a marine iguana, we were there just in time to witness natural selection going on, the survival of the fittest.
After our lunch we headed to another visitor site located at the island of Santiago called Puerto Egas which has volcanic black beach, some of our guests went snorkeling off this beach. Here they encountered sea turtles, sting rays, and plenty of tropical and subtropical multicolored fishes.
Shortly after our last snorkeling outing we decided to do a long walk along the intertidal zone of Puerto Egas where we found a multitude of seabirds such as pelicans, blue footed bobbies and Galápagos shearwaters fishing along the coast, this area contains a big diversity of mollusks and sally light footed crabs.
Finally we got to a huge lava field and saw the fur sea lions of the Galápagos; everyone was so surprised to see two species of sea lions sleeping on the same rock, the fur sea lions and the sea lions. The sun was about to set and there was a big group of young explorers playing a football match with the Polaris’s Crew which was a wonderful way to end the day.
We started our day with a walk to the top of Bartolome island before breakfast, and along the trail we could view several geological formations. Once we got to the lookout point at the summit of the island we experienced an incredible landscape, all the spatter cones and the different colors on the rocks in contrast with the green vegetation of the beach gave us the impression that this island was just formed yesterday.
Later in the morning after breakfast we went to the same island’s golden beach where we could snorkel, swim along he pinnacle rock, some of us decided to walk on a sandy trail that takes you to another beach; here they saw pelicans nesting, sea turtle’s nests and a school of sharks swimming along the beach.
We ended our morning looking at a Galápagos hawk (see photo), one of the most important predators of the islands while it was catching a marine iguana, we were there just in time to witness natural selection going on, the survival of the fittest.
After our lunch we headed to another visitor site located at the island of Santiago called Puerto Egas which has volcanic black beach, some of our guests went snorkeling off this beach. Here they encountered sea turtles, sting rays, and plenty of tropical and subtropical multicolored fishes.
Shortly after our last snorkeling outing we decided to do a long walk along the intertidal zone of Puerto Egas where we found a multitude of seabirds such as pelicans, blue footed bobbies and Galápagos shearwaters fishing along the coast, this area contains a big diversity of mollusks and sally light footed crabs.
Finally we got to a huge lava field and saw the fur sea lions of the Galápagos; everyone was so surprised to see two species of sea lions sleeping on the same rock, the fur sea lions and the sea lions. The sun was about to set and there was a big group of young explorers playing a football match with the Polaris’s Crew which was a wonderful way to end the day.
