We disembarked early in the morning. Another wet landing, this time onto a black sand beach. Black sand is sticky and gets everywhere. Just a few meters into the trail we spotted our first tortoise, a juvenile. We took our…
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Fernandina – Love on the Islands
Love was in the air when we disembarked that afternoon at Punta Espinoza on Fernandina Island. Earlier in the day we had seen several pairs of sea turtles mating at different times. One fellow traveller remarked it was no wonder…
Vincente Roca: The Turtle Hang Out
The day started at sunrise. By 6am most of us had assembled on the covered deck to check out the scenery. We identified turtles by their large rock-like domes emerging silently through the waves. A short time later we boarded the pangas…
Black Sand Beaches
After another long, rocky night of travel on the boat, we ended up on the west side of Santiago Island at a place called Puerto Egas. It was the same island where we went on our first excursion back in…
Isle of the Red-footed Booby
We boarded the pangas at 6:30am to reach Genovese Island, home of the elusive Red-footed Booby. This is the only island to see this particular type of booby in the entire archipelago. At the landing dock a mama fur seal…