Each evening we had the schedual for the next day written up on the whiteboard.

Typical schedual:

25/11
Island “Española”
“Punta Suarez”
7am Breakfast
8:15 Dry Landing, 2.5 hours, very rocky trail (circuit)
-Sea Lions, Marine Iguanas, Lava Lizards, Blue Footed Boobies, Hood Mockingbirds, Darwin Finches, Waved Albatross.
-The Blow-hole

-Departure 50min

“Bahia Gardner”
12pm Lunch
14:30 Wet Landing/snorkelling
2 hours free time at sandy beach, take snorkelling gear.
-Sea lions, Hood mockingbirds, migratory shorebirds, snorkelling off the beach.
18:30 Briefing
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Film (BBC Galapagos)

Morning Panga to island of Española. Off the boat onto rocks. Passed marine iguanas and a couple of sandy bays with baby sea lions waiting for their mothers. Some very small, newborns.
Walking across the island we saw a juvenile Galapagos Hawk which Juan Carlos was quite excited about as it’s unusual to see one so close. He said the hawk was hatched in the rocks nearby and he had seen it as a chick.

Came to the albatross “landing strip”. Clearance in the bushes with baby albatross hanging around under the trees. Albatross don’t build nests. One adult landed to feed a chick while we were watching.

Walked to nearby cliffs where the albatross’ go to take off. More marine iguanas on the rocks and a blow hole with some nesting Nazca Boobies which had green feet instead of blue. On the walk back to the boat we saw some blue-footed boobies doing their courting dance.

In the afternoon we snorkelled off the boat and went to nearby beach to sunbake and paddle with the sealions. Later we snorkelled off the beach. Saw sea lions, coral snake and lots of fish.