Floreana Galapagos 27th March 2007

When some of the passengers changed over we took the opportunity to move to the biggest cabin which had lots of windows around 180 degrees, taking up the back part of the boat. We watched the sunset and saw the sky turn a lovely colour just before the sun rose.

Our first stop was at Punta Cormorant, a green sand beach with small grains of olivine in it. We could see the grains but it wasn't actually that green overall.

There was a large lake with 40-50 flamingos spread over it. We walked to another pristine beach with rays and turtles in the shallow water, then it was off for a snorkel. We snorkelled around Devils Crown - some offshore rocks - where there were two more seals, lots of rays (mostly spotted eagle rays in groups), lots of fish and also sharks swimming below us. At the end a penguin was preening himself on the water and was completely unconcerned as our boat circled around watching him.

In the afternoon we went to Post Office Bay, had a quick snorkel then visited the post office barrel that has been there since 1793. It was set up for people to collect any post that is near to where they live which they then hand deliver. There weren´t any postcards we could deliver but we did post a few, including one to ourselves, We have had a bet and Steve thinks it will turn up on 2.9.2007 and I say 16.4.2007.

We also walked down a lava tube, it was pitch black and went all the way down to the sea.