April 2005
Moving along with more of the trip, we're now up to day 6 of our 11 day tour which brings us to Isabela and Fernandina. You'll notice from the map that the Galapagos are located right on the Equator, and what do we find but penguins, lots of them.
Galapagos Penguins
More Marine Iguanas
Another Flightless Cormorant. These crabs, called Sally Lightfoot
Crabs, were everywhere.
This was our crossing the Equator ceremony
with Sam in the front, Christine, Dana, Liz, and John and in the yellow
is Kris. A couple of Fur Seals
More Prickly Pear Cactus
and a Yellow Crowned Night Heron
More walking fun on the lava
and The Red Footed Booby
I think it's a Night Heron but I'm not
sure, might be a Lava Heron. The other one is a Masked Booby
We spent the entire day on Santa Cruz
and one of the stops was The Charles Darwin Research Station where they
raise young tortoises for repopulating into the wild. They also had
some older tortoises that you could get close to. On our way to the
restaurant for our evening meal, was another stop. It was this collapsed
crater where we saw a vermilion flycatcher. I didn't get a picture
of it but some of the other folks did, and I'm hoping that one of them
will send me a picture. May-8-05 Just got this
great picture of the flycatcher from Shirley R. This photo shows the brilliant
coloring, if I had taken it, it would probably just have been a silhouette.
Thanks Shirley.
The crater area.
Jan taking a picture of the anthurium at the Narwhal Restaurant
Another scene at the restaurant, it was
a swell place, we really enjoyed the meal and the ambience.
Then the next day, day 9,we had kind of
a dry landing with a climb up Prince Phillip's Steps. That's Pat
just coming down.
Day 10 Bartolome and a big flight of steps.
A view from the top of Pinnacle Rock.
We also visited Seymour Island where the
Magnificent Frigatebirds were nesting. There were also Great Frigatebirds
as well. I was having a difficult time telling one from the other,
the male with the purplish sheen was the Magnificent and the one with the
greenish sheen, the Great. It takes a lot more practice for identification
than just the couple of days I had.
