Floreana Island
A pre-breakfast early morning outing took us first of all to the historical and exciting Post Office Bay. We found, placed in seventeen ninety three, a wine barrel that has served as a post office for the South Pacific sailors for about three hundred years. We had our guests also become part of this tradition which is still working, delivering mail found in the barrel hand to hand around the world.
After breakfast we went snorkeling at Champion Islet and later Zodiac riding to find the Floreana mockingbird as well as a lot of shearwaters, sea lions, finches, gulls, crabs, boobies, pelicans and a lot more friends resting along the shores of this islet.
Snorkelers had a great time swimming with playful sea lions and surrounded by hundreds of colorful fish. The water is really warm now, eighty degrees Fahrenheit. The glass bottom boat was also deployed so we had floating lessons on aquatic creatures with our naturalists.
After lunch, from one thirty to two thirty we had our naturalist working with the kids on board with their journals, their memory beads and we watched an amusing National Geographic production on underwater life.
The afternoon was full of excitement, kayaking, beach time and walking along the flamingo lagoon!
It is impossible to pack one more thing in only one day!
