Española Island
It is nice to come back to the Polaris and see most of my good friends on board, my fellow naturalists. Today’s incredible walk on Española Island made me even happier. It was great because of the amount of wild life and because of its fearless behavior as well.
Blue-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, marine iguanas, and sea lions were all along the trail, and when we thought that there weren’t more species to be discovered, some albatross appeared! We found a few waved albatross chicks that are about four months old. So in one month more they will be ready to take off and migrate together with their parents to the south, following the cold currents.
In the afternoon the weather encouraged many of our guests to do water activities. For those who did not want to snorkel we had the option of the glass bottom boat. Everyone had the chance to go to the beach and share the time with a big colony of sea lions.
The people that went to the deep water snorkeling saw a lot of fish, the water was clear and the sun was shining, the perfect weather for snorkeling! My fellow naturalist Daniel had the Polaris underwater camera and got very good shots of some of the tropical fish. He was lucky today to get a clear photo of a pretty poisonous fish, the stone scorpion fish. Fortunately he survived the encounter, and got to share his picture with us.
It is nice to come back to the Polaris and see most of my good friends on board, my fellow naturalists. Today’s incredible walk on Española Island made me even happier. It was great because of the amount of wild life and because of its fearless behavior as well.
Blue-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, marine iguanas, and sea lions were all along the trail, and when we thought that there weren’t more species to be discovered, some albatross appeared! We found a few waved albatross chicks that are about four months old. So in one month more they will be ready to take off and migrate together with their parents to the south, following the cold currents.
In the afternoon the weather encouraged many of our guests to do water activities. For those who did not want to snorkel we had the option of the glass bottom boat. Everyone had the chance to go to the beach and share the time with a big colony of sea lions.
The people that went to the deep water snorkeling saw a lot of fish, the water was clear and the sun was shining, the perfect weather for snorkeling! My fellow naturalist Daniel had the Polaris underwater camera and got very good shots of some of the tropical fish. He was lucky today to get a clear photo of a pretty poisonous fish, the stone scorpion fish. Fortunately he survived the encounter, and got to share his picture with us.
