Tag Archives: Galàpagos

Today was our last full day on this wonderful adventure. Our morning outing was in dinghies to Black Turtle Cove (in Santa Cruz Island), which is shallow salt water with lots of mangroves growing all over the place. This area … Continue reading →

Santiago Island was formed by ash and lava spewing volcanic action. Along the coast, you can see quite clearly the thousands of layers of compacted ash (called tuff, pronounced “toof”) and lava that created it. We started our morning with … Continue reading →

Yesterday there was a miscommunication and I accidentally misidentified one of the types of bird we saw -what I thought was a blue-footed booby was actually a Nazca booby. I already corrected the original post but I wanted to let … Continue reading →

Today we visited Genovesa Island. Three trips, altogether. For the first one, we disembarked from the cruise boat at 8 am in rubber dinghies. The cruise boat was anchored a short ride from the island, and we motored in the … Continue reading →