After spending two days in the western most part of Galapagos, today we continue exploring this archipelago in central part of this Oceanic Islands.
We started our day with an early activity, to visit Espumilla Beach. This beach has a mile trail over a typical, dry vegetation zone. This visitor site has the tallest incense trees in Galapagos. These trees are native in the Americas, but outside Galapagos they are considered in danger. Here in this archipelago they are protected and everywhere. These trees, during the dry season which runs from June to December, give the impression of a ghostly appearance, because they dropped leaves to save water. During the warm, wet season they bloom with beautiful green leaves and white flowers.
During this hike, we spotted many endemic and native species; they were preparing for breeding and taking full advantage of the good conditions they are going to have very soon.
At the same time, we offered kayaking, because this place has a very interesting geological formation along the coast, and it is a good place to observe shore birds, pelicans, boobies, turtles and Galapagos sea lions.
We sailed for a short distance toward Buccaneer’s Cove and as soon as we dropped anchor, we went out for deep water snorkel, along with a Zodiac ride to close our extraordinary morning activity.
For the afternoon we offered our final activity in a very interesting visitor site, known as Puerto Egas. This hike is one of the most interesting for migratory shore birds observation, piles of marine iguanas, invertebrates. Boobies, pelicans and the two species of sea lions were found here.
It was a full day of joy and happiness in Galapagos.
