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

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Bill taking on the look of the Blue Footed Booby

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A Finch watching us land on the beach

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Does anyone else see the cat?

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Nancy posing by a large cactus as we hiked

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The guardian of the beach, notice the red in the colour of the beach

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Prickly Pear Cactus

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A beautifully colour lizard as we walked along the trail

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A star fish on the beach

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Another star fish 

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A view of the cove and our ship, sometimes pink flamingos can be found here too

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The trail took us over the top of the island to the inlet on the other side, beautiful

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A great opportunity for an HDR B&W

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Just incase you had to be reminded!!

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No flamingos so Nancy stepped in, great fun

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Another B&W as we walked along the shore

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This dolphin and two others played at the front of the ship as we sailed this afternoon

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Kim and some Frigate birds

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Wendy, Nancy and Bruce watching for more dolphins

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A beautifully coloured Sally Light Footed Crab

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Howard did not notice the water, oh well it cools you off

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This Pelican and a marine iguana made for an interesting subject

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Then he started to show off ...

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Lined up perfectly

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Sally Light Foot reflections

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This iguana greeted us as we entered the trail this afternoon

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Some great reflections on this inlet

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Land iguana feeding

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Howard, Christine and one of the crew as we sailed into the cove this afternoon

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Selfie time, Bill, Omar Howard, Anne Marie and Christine

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Spider surfing his web...

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Bee working the flowers

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Everything stops when a Land Iguana crosses your path

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Butterfly on yellow flowers, sorry don’t know the name of them or the butterfly

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Grove in the afternoon sun

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Another land Iguana

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Up close

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Start burst through a Prickly Pear Cactus

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You can see how lush the landscape is here compared to the lava flows yesterday

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Nature is always busy at work

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A wider view of the lush landscape this afternoon

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The rain brings out the colours this time of year

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All stop as another iguana ahead

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Back onboard enjoying dinner this evening

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And a toast to our great naturalist Omar, thanks for sharing your knowledge

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A couple of landscape shots to wrap up this evenings photos

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A view of the beautiful inlet this evening as we wrapped up todays shooting

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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.



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