Floreana is an Island with beauty, wildlife and interesting human history.
Before breakfast we headed onto the beach for a short hike through a greenish-brown sand with some olivine crystals and a brackish water lagoon with waders, usually pintail ducks and black-necked stilts and others.
The trail ended at a white coralline sandy beach where sea turtles nest through the year and where rays concentrate by the hundreds along the shore under the breaking waves. Sally light -foot crabs splashed the dark lava with color.
Back on board for breakfast we started a short navigation to a small Island called Champion where we disembarked for a Zodiac. We searched for interesting wildlife, such us sea lions, boobies, swallow tailed gulls, brown noddies, red billed tropic birds and the elusive Chatham mockingbird, which became extinct on the main island due to predation from introduced animals.
We returned back on board to get ready for another exciting activity, SNORKELING. We explored one of the best destinations to do so because large schools of fish are typically found. Just to a name a few- parrot fish, king angel fish, invertebrates, echinoderms and more. What we enjoyed the best was swimming with sea lions who entertained us almost all throughout the session. It was a great morning!
Post office bay is another place on Floreana open to visitors. Here people we learned about the interesting human history of the island and had the opportunity to take and leave correspondence in the way whalers and others used to do many centuries ago. No need for stamps.
We also enjoyed this location by a kayak because it is alive with plenty of wildlife, like turtles, sea lions, marine iguanas, and birds.
The sunset punctuated the end of a great day in the Galapagos.
