Galapagos Islands Blog Day Six
June 22, 2015 at 10:41 PM
We have now arrived into the bay off the coast of the island Rábida or Jervis. Almost all the islands have two names and Rábida is quite the contrast with much more greenery to the lava flow islands we left yesterday. Most of the coastline here is rocky except for one very red sandy beach on the northeast side. A hight amount of iron in the lava give this island a distinctive red colour.
This afternoon we sailed to Santa Cruz Island in search of the large land iguanas at a location called Cerro Dragon located on the west coast of the island. We were not disappointed as we had many sitings and a beautiful hike topped off with a nice island breeze. We also had many beautiful landscape opportunities today on both islands. Below is a great selection of images from todays trek. Enjoy.
First our map showing last night and todays sailings
Bill taking on the look of the Blue Footed Booby
A Finch watching us land on the beach
Does anyone else see the cat?
Nancy posing by a large cactus as we hiked
The guardian of the beach, notice the red in the colour of the beach
Prickly Pear Cactus
A beautifully colour lizard as we walked along the trail
A star fish on the beach
Another star fish
A view of the cove and our ship, sometimes pink flamingos can be found here too
The trail took us over the top of the island to the inlet on the other side, beautiful
A great opportunity for an HDR B&W
Just incase you had to be reminded!!
No flamingos so Nancy stepped in, great fun
Another B&W as we walked along the shore
This dolphin and two others played at the front of the ship as we sailed this afternoon
Kim and some Frigate birds
Wendy, Nancy and Bruce watching for more dolphins
A beautifully coloured Sally Light Footed Crab
Howard did not notice the water, oh well it cools you off
This Pelican and a marine iguana made for an interesting subject
Then he started to show off ...
Lined up perfectly
Sally Light Foot reflections
This iguana greeted us as we entered the trail this afternoon
Some great reflections on this inlet
Land iguana feeding
Howard, Christine and one of the crew as we sailed into the cove this afternoon
Selfie time, Bill, Omar Howard, Anne Marie and Christine
Spider surfing his web...
Bee working the flowers
Everything stops when a Land Iguana crosses your path
Butterfly on yellow flowers, sorry don’t know the name of them or the butterfly
Grove in the afternoon sun
Another land Iguana
Up close
Start burst through a Prickly Pear Cactus
You can see how lush the landscape is here compared to the lava flows yesterday
Nature is always busy at work
A wider view of the lush landscape this afternoon
The rain brings out the colours this time of year
All stop as another iguana ahead
Back onboard enjoying dinner this evening
And a toast to our great naturalist Omar, thanks for sharing your knowledge
A couple of landscape shots to wrap up this evenings photos
A view of the beautiful inlet this evening as we wrapped up todays shooting
That’s it for this evening, tomorrow we will visit the Puerto Ayora and the Darwin research station, then in the afternoon visit the highlands to photograph the giant land tortoise. Good night from all the Trekkers in the Galapagos Islands.