Santa Cruz Island
From the paradise to the common world; from the wonderful nature, the quiet space, where beauty has its quiet niche…
Then we woke up in Puerto Ayora, and we were delighted by the wonderful sight of Punta Estrada. The place where we landed, the dock of the National Park, had white, red, and button mangroves along with some marine iguanas that were basking under the sun.
Then we moved on, and the image of Doctor Van Straelen was in our sight. This is a symbol of a very important man who was the founder and first director of the Charles Darwin Foundation. Hope came to our spirits because this person created the rules of conservation for Galápagos and promoted the necessity to evolve permanently to better care for the beauty and special things of the Enchanted Islands.
After visiting the tortoise hatchlings and Lonesome George, we bought t-shirts and took a bus to a farm where we played volleyball and had a Jacuzzi. Then we went to the sinkholes and the tortoises of Santa Cruz and the Vermillion Flycatcher surrounded by the African tulip tree.
During the whole day, I had always in mind the concepts given by Sylvia Earle about the protection of the marine life and the possible solution to buy fisheries in the Islands and to be able to forbid any export of marine life, any threat to our Marine Sanctuary.
From the paradise to the common world; from the wonderful nature, the quiet space, where beauty has its quiet niche…
Then we woke up in Puerto Ayora, and we were delighted by the wonderful sight of Punta Estrada. The place where we landed, the dock of the National Park, had white, red, and button mangroves along with some marine iguanas that were basking under the sun.
Then we moved on, and the image of Doctor Van Straelen was in our sight. This is a symbol of a very important man who was the founder and first director of the Charles Darwin Foundation. Hope came to our spirits because this person created the rules of conservation for Galápagos and promoted the necessity to evolve permanently to better care for the beauty and special things of the Enchanted Islands.
After visiting the tortoise hatchlings and Lonesome George, we bought t-shirts and took a bus to a farm where we played volleyball and had a Jacuzzi. Then we went to the sinkholes and the tortoises of Santa Cruz and the Vermillion Flycatcher surrounded by the African tulip tree.
During the whole day, I had always in mind the concepts given by Sylvia Earle about the protection of the marine life and the possible solution to buy fisheries in the Islands and to be able to forbid any export of marine life, any threat to our Marine Sanctuary.
