Española Island
It is December the thirty-first; we are living the last hours of the year two thousand and six. We will never live this day again and we might never be again in the island of Española in the last day of the year so, we did our best to enjoy this wonderful and special day. After an early wake up call, we enjoyed some stretching up at the sun deck with the masseuse on board. After a delightful breakfast we started disembarkation for the morning outing in Punta Suarez on Española Island.
This spectacular place offered us beautiful scenery, magnificent cliffs, the fabulous blowhole as well as a great amount and a big variety of nesting land marine birds, exquisite endemic marine iguanas, the most colorful of the whole archipelago, huge lava lizards, the Galápagos hawk, Galápagos doves and curious mocking birds just to mention some of the natural highlights that this expedition offered this morning. The trail in Punta Suarez is very long and rocky so, guests that were not able to take it, enjoyed a beautiful and scenic Zodiac ride.
After we came back on board, our Expedition Leader Cindy Manning briefed everybody carefully in the arts of snorkeling and kayaking which were the activities for the afternoon outings. After this briefing all our guests were provided, with the help of the team of naturalists, with snorkeling gear. When we were all done with these details, we finally had lunch, the last of this year, we disembarked again in the afternoon at two forty-five for swimming, kayaking, beach time and walking on Gardner Bay.
Glass bottom boat riders started to disembark followed by snorkelers and beach swimmers. Right after, deep water snorkelers followed. The afternoon was full of delightful and refreshing water activities, we all enjoyed the incredible marine life that the Galápagos can offer. We swam with sea lions on the beach and snorkeled with colorful tropical fish, reef sharks and even a reef shark. We ended this last day of the year with some kayaking around the beautiful turquoise waters of Gardner bay.
It is December the thirty-first; we are living the last hours of the year two thousand and six. We will never live this day again and we might never be again in the island of Española in the last day of the year so, we did our best to enjoy this wonderful and special day. After an early wake up call, we enjoyed some stretching up at the sun deck with the masseuse on board. After a delightful breakfast we started disembarkation for the morning outing in Punta Suarez on Española Island.
This spectacular place offered us beautiful scenery, magnificent cliffs, the fabulous blowhole as well as a great amount and a big variety of nesting land marine birds, exquisite endemic marine iguanas, the most colorful of the whole archipelago, huge lava lizards, the Galápagos hawk, Galápagos doves and curious mocking birds just to mention some of the natural highlights that this expedition offered this morning. The trail in Punta Suarez is very long and rocky so, guests that were not able to take it, enjoyed a beautiful and scenic Zodiac ride.
After we came back on board, our Expedition Leader Cindy Manning briefed everybody carefully in the arts of snorkeling and kayaking which were the activities for the afternoon outings. After this briefing all our guests were provided, with the help of the team of naturalists, with snorkeling gear. When we were all done with these details, we finally had lunch, the last of this year, we disembarked again in the afternoon at two forty-five for swimming, kayaking, beach time and walking on Gardner Bay.
Glass bottom boat riders started to disembark followed by snorkelers and beach swimmers. Right after, deep water snorkelers followed. The afternoon was full of delightful and refreshing water activities, we all enjoyed the incredible marine life that the Galápagos can offer. We swam with sea lions on the beach and snorkeled with colorful tropical fish, reef sharks and even a reef shark. We ended this last day of the year with some kayaking around the beautiful turquoise waters of Gardner bay.
