Our day started on Gardner Bay with an early morning walk. Loads of sea lions and a bunch of iguanas showed up to welcome us to this elder island with rocky ecosystems. After breakfast, we snorkeled with schools of colorful and silvery fish species and playful sea lion pups. In the afternoon, we visited Punta Suarez. We deployed our Zodiacs and went for an amazing ride along the cliffs to look for waved albatrosses, Nazca boobies, and Galapagos shearwaters.
5/29/2025
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Genovesa Island
Genovesa is considered one of the Galapagos crown jewels, and today it was showing off all of its splendor. Immediately after breakfast we put on our sturdy shoes and set out to explore Prince Philip’s Steps. This area is known for opportunities to observe not only large colonies of nesting Nazca and red-footed boobies, but maybe, just maybe, the short-eared owl which exhibits diurnal behavior on this island. After this walk we got ready for a dip in the Pacific Ocean and snorkeling along the inner coast of this caldera. The afternoon was equally amazing as we disembarked to explore Darwin Bay, along a short and easy trail that was packed with wildlife. Here we observed not only nesting frigatebirds, red-footed boobies, and Nazca boobies, but also a few yellow-crowned night herons. It was another incredible afternoon in the Galapagos Islands.
