Floreana and Isabela Islands
We visited two islands today, Floreana and Isabela. However it doesn’t matter where you go; there are sally-light foot crabs in every visitor site of the Galápagos. And it doesn’t matter how many times our guests see them, or I see them, they always surprise and strike us with their wonderful bright coloration. Their red bodies contrast with the beautiful black lava flows. Sometimes the flows are pretty old, like the ones on Floreana Island, a middle-aged island, or very young, as the lava flows in southern Isabela, which are not older than 700,000 years.
Together with the crabs, today we enjoyed many other sightings. Early in the morning, and appearing from nowhere, we found two Galápagos penguins. We were visiting the historical barrel of Floreana, and not only the penguins came to our Zodiac swimming as torpedoes, but suddenly we distinguished a flamingo flying over our heads. The snorkeling was just amazing, completely transparent water, with sharks, turtles and rays. The afternoon found us in Puerto Villamil, where we learned about the breeding program of giant tortoises of Isabela, and we were so lucky, that we found them literally “breeding,” ensuring the survival of their kind.
I feel as if this one day was a week. We had so many new experiences, we discovered so much.
We visited two islands today, Floreana and Isabela. However it doesn’t matter where you go; there are sally-light foot crabs in every visitor site of the Galápagos. And it doesn’t matter how many times our guests see them, or I see them, they always surprise and strike us with their wonderful bright coloration. Their red bodies contrast with the beautiful black lava flows. Sometimes the flows are pretty old, like the ones on Floreana Island, a middle-aged island, or very young, as the lava flows in southern Isabela, which are not older than 700,000 years.
Together with the crabs, today we enjoyed many other sightings. Early in the morning, and appearing from nowhere, we found two Galápagos penguins. We were visiting the historical barrel of Floreana, and not only the penguins came to our Zodiac swimming as torpedoes, but suddenly we distinguished a flamingo flying over our heads. The snorkeling was just amazing, completely transparent water, with sharks, turtles and rays. The afternoon found us in Puerto Villamil, where we learned about the breeding program of giant tortoises of Isabela, and we were so lucky, that we found them literally “breeding,” ensuring the survival of their kind.
I feel as if this one day was a week. We had so many new experiences, we discovered so much.
