...greenish beach due to OLIVINE minerals...welcomed by Sea Lions and many Sally Lightfoot Crabs and saw our first Galapagos Penguine...400 meters trail from here leads to a white sandy beach on the other side where we found dozens of SEA TURTLES very close to the beach and found dozens of BLACK SPOTTED RAYS - and between both beaches is a lagoon with dozens of PINK FLAMINGOS...
...Sally Lightfoot Crabs...there are millions...
...this is very UNIQUE beach -has many turtle nests-almost out of water are dozens of Black Sea Turtles-again almost out of water there are dozens of Black Spotted Rays...
...black bits you see are Black Sea Turtles...and in the tiny waves there are many Black Spotted Rays...
...Rays are seen as waves flows back in less than ankle deep water-as you stand there some of them touch your feet and gives you like gliding sensation on your skin...magical and just unreal...not allowed to swim or snorkel here for obvious reasons...
...10am back on EDEN 10.30am then went snokerling around and in the crater of this collasped volcanoe few km from Floreana called DEVIL´S CROWN...
...THE place to dive and snorkel in Gal...
...ask me what did we see here while snorkeling in the crater of this old volcanoe...
...thank you for asking...
...WE SAW OUR FIRST SHARK EVER AND FOR 10 SECONDS WE WERE ACTUALLY SWIMMING ON TOP OF THE SHARK JUST 10 FEET BELOW US...it was 5 to 6 footer ADULT called WHITE TIP SHARK...see the picture taken by Pritti in the snorkeling section...
...majestic..
...how do you TOP anything after this experience!...well! ...we did!!...
...on 9th Feb while snorkeling alone at Genovesa Pritti,Vedanat and myself-we came face to face with TWO fully grown BLACK TIP SHARKS...
...read more later...
ps. we saw millions of fish at Devil´s Crown too.
...delighted after seeing our first shark we had good lunch on EDEN... and now the hunt was on to see THE shark-HAMMERHEAD-will we find one?-hmmm!!!read on to find out...Jorge was under real pressure to show us THE HAMMERHEAD......then around 2 .30pm we landed here-wet landing-POST OFFICE BAY-crew of all the yacht´s here have a football match every week on a pitch behind the beach-Jorge played lost one and drew one...there are also LAVA tubes here...
...here at POST OFFICE BAY in the old days sailors use to leave their posts to be picked by other sailors and so on to be delivered...so even today that tradition is kept alive by tourist leaving postcards here without stamps and then you go through all the other postcards left to see if it´s addressed to near where you live and if you find one then you HAVE to hand deliver it when you go back home...we left one addressed to Cardiff but we failed to find one addressed to near Uxbridge or Cardiff...phew! is that clear to you?..yaa! clear as mud mate!...
...BROWN PELICAN...huge pouched bill and large size-many in Gal......other seabirds we saw were-TROPIC BIRD with long tail-SEAGULL both SWALLOW-TAILED and LAVA...
...shore and wetlands birds seen were-HERON-OYSTERCATCHERS...
...land birds seen were...DARWIN´S FINCHES-MOCKINGBIRDS-VERMILION FLYCATCHER-YELLOW WARBLER...
...EDEN set sails for SANTA CRUZ ISLAND at 5pm and arrives at PUERTO AYORA at sunset-the main port in Gal-after dinner we all go to the town have a drink or two-check emails etc and are back on board around 10pm...
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