After an overnight cruise, we spent Friday off of Santiago
Island and a very small island known as Rabida Island. On Santiago we spent the morning walking
through an area of unbelievably beautiful tidal pools. The area is covered by
old lava flows. The volcanic rock has many large pockets and holes that fill
with water as the tide goes out. We saw
a variety of more colorful marine iguanas. We also saw sea lions, Galapagos fur
sea lions, blue footed boobies and a variety of other birds.
We spent the afternoon snorkeling off of Rabida Island. Unfortunately we couldn’t capture this
afternoon with pictures since it was spent under water, but it was spectacular,
the best day of deep water snorkeling we experienced. The water was warm and crystal clear. We saw countless varieties of colorful
tropical fish. We had sea lions swimming
and playing around us, and we caught a couple glimpses of white tip reef sharks
swimming by. Awesome!
Before dinner we took a short hike on shore before another
relaxing dinner on board the Flamingo I.
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