Espanola Island Galapagos 26th March 2007

During the night we had been sailing perpendicular to the current and the boat was rocking from side to side. Luckily we weren´t sea sick but it was difficult to sleep. We had three hours of free time on a 1km long white sand beach where sea lions were sprawled out along the whole beach, and we spent an hour wandering along between them all.

We snorkelled out to some rocks and there were two sea lions in the water. The big ones can be quite scary underwater as they are much faster than us.

The food on the boat had been okay but this time in was prawns, so we didn´t eat much - it was also pineapple for dessert.

In the afternoon we were back on Espanola. We had a job getting off the dinghy as a dominant male sea lion was crashed out on the steps and walkway and didn´t want to move. There were loads of marine iguanas; on this island they had more colour - red and green, when they were laying eggs. We were lucky to see about three waved albatrosse. They are only just starting to arrive back on the island to nest - one was flying around. We saw blue footed boobies nesting, one had two two day old chicks and another was sat on two eggs. The Nazca boobies had bigger chicks. This island seemed to have it all.