Bartolomé & Santiago Island
Early morning, and we are climbing on our way to the top of Bartolomé, a small island whose volcanic features give an idea of the origin of the Galápagos: volcanic eruptions. Afterwards breakfast took place outside, we savored it and at the same time we were gaining energy to continue on with the full day ahead of us.
The day continued and we had a wet landing on the northern beach from where we walked across a sand dune to get to the southern beach of the same island, just 10 minutes away. Once we got to the other side we had beautiful formations of “tuff” all eroded, forming walls that look more like sculptures and right across the bay we have a huge field of pahoe-hoe lava flow still regarded as young, perhaps no older than 100 years.
After the walk some just sat on the beach and others went on the glass bottom boat, to get a look of the marine life without getting wet, they even saw a shark. Others went snorkelling and came back with a lot of sighting stories, with a big smile on their faces.
Time runs fast and still we have to reach another point in the afternoon, so we lift Anchor and move on west ward to Puerto Egas on Santiago Island. Place that at some point in a recent past was inhabited, we found very few remnants of it, insinuating a human story.
For us though the place was just offering nothing but a last snorkel, and everyone who got addicted to this wonderful activity jumped into the water seeking for some sightings.
And before the day came to and end, we walked along the coast appreciating the landscape so rugged and at the same time so colourful, with tide pools and sea lion pups playing around marine iguanas, we look for Galápagos fur seals.
