Our first outing of the voyage occurred today on the magnificent island Magdalena, which is a long, low and sandy structure. Both sides of Magdalena Island are beautiful, but the Pacific side is wider and longer, and we call it Sand Dollar Beach—because of the abundance of sand dollars, animals that are related to sea stars and sea urchins. Naturalists and guests alike stretched their legs walking on the sand dunes, and discovered a myriad of organisms as well as signs of their presence. In particular, molluscans and crustaceans called our attention by their abundance and diversity, like these photos show. In the afternoon, the National Geographic Sea Bird transited along the Hull Canal and everybody on board enjoyed the presence of many gray whales, cows and calves and single individuals that performed multiple breeches!