Isabela & Fernandina Islands
Today is a very exiting day – we woke up early in the morning to witness a magnificent geological formation. Roca Redonda is the top of a huge underwater volcano, which has emerged from the depth. The base of this underwater mountain is more or less nine thousand feet in depth. This round rock out of the water is the home of hundreds of sea birds; with easy access to the ocean they use this place as a nesting site, or resting place. With the ship we circumnavigated to see it from all angles.
Later, our Captain headed south the ship to our next destination, along the way our younger guests had a surprise aboard, the King of the Ocean, because we crossed the Equator for a second time, and all of them were baptized as Shellbacks.
Punta Vicente Roca is the name of this place, located to the northwest of Isabela Island; there our guests had the opportunity to do different activities such as Zodiac cruise and deep water snorkel. We saw the two species of endemic flightless sea birds from Galápagos, penguins and flightless cormorant. It was so unbelievable to swim with the pacific sea turtle so close by; we were living a dream come true.
In the afternoon we repositioned the ship to a different island; Fernandina is considered the most pristine island, because no animal or plants have been introduced to this remote and isolated island.
There is only one visitor site there, called Punta Espinoza. It’s a fascinating place and home to a few thousand larger marine iguanas, and of course a nesting place for the flightless cormorant. We were surrounded by very dramatic geological features that decorate this little paradise, and by this time the sun is setting down and the day has ended.
Today is a very exiting day – we woke up early in the morning to witness a magnificent geological formation. Roca Redonda is the top of a huge underwater volcano, which has emerged from the depth. The base of this underwater mountain is more or less nine thousand feet in depth. This round rock out of the water is the home of hundreds of sea birds; with easy access to the ocean they use this place as a nesting site, or resting place. With the ship we circumnavigated to see it from all angles.
Later, our Captain headed south the ship to our next destination, along the way our younger guests had a surprise aboard, the King of the Ocean, because we crossed the Equator for a second time, and all of them were baptized as Shellbacks.
Punta Vicente Roca is the name of this place, located to the northwest of Isabela Island; there our guests had the opportunity to do different activities such as Zodiac cruise and deep water snorkel. We saw the two species of endemic flightless sea birds from Galápagos, penguins and flightless cormorant. It was so unbelievable to swim with the pacific sea turtle so close by; we were living a dream come true.
In the afternoon we repositioned the ship to a different island; Fernandina is considered the most pristine island, because no animal or plants have been introduced to this remote and isolated island.
There is only one visitor site there, called Punta Espinoza. It’s a fascinating place and home to a few thousand larger marine iguanas, and of course a nesting place for the flightless cormorant. We were surrounded by very dramatic geological features that decorate this little paradise, and by this time the sun is setting down and the day has ended.
