Saturday, 12 March 2016

Santiago Island

Another fantastic day!  We started the day with an early morning exciting wet landing on a beautiful beach for photography instructions from a professional. Really interesting to get some tips and wonderful to land on a pristine beach at 0630 on a hot sunny day.  This beach is one of the Galápagos Islands most important turtle nesting grounds.  A deep water snorkel in Bucaneer Bay revealed a couple of pockets of fish but once again visibility was not very good..
We spent an absolutely wonderful afternoon on the beach at Puento Egas.  After sharing the beach with an abundance of sea lions for beautiful views we went on an incredible hike where we were treated to incredible land formations, beautiful vegetation, a great variety of endemic birds, coulourful Sally light foot crabs, fur seals, iguanas, and many other wonders. We spent an amazing time watching a mother sea lion with her fairly new baby emerge from the ocean and travel along the beach.  We both have permanent grins!


Early morning mist on the beach

Ghost crab
Getting breakfast

Got it

Eyeing us up

Baby nursing


Beautiful formations

Mom and baby

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