Santiago Island and Bartoleme Island, Galapagos 24th March 2007

We landed on another beautiful beach, the sun was shining again. We walked across a lava flow from 1890 that only had very few plants starting to colonise it; it was broken up but had lovely patterns in it. We snorkelled around Sullivan bay and a penguin shot past us-Steve missed it, but later in the snorkel we followed two penguins around for a while, watching them swim through a large school of fish.

On Bartoleme Island another seal came ashore to see what we were up to. We saw pelicans starting to nest and also about 30 small white tipped reef sharks about two to three foot from the water´s edge. We snorkled around Pinnacle Rock and had a close encounter with two white tipped reef sharks. Walking up to the top of the island blue footed boobies were diving into the water for fish - from about 10 metres in the air they plunge in at great speed and probably dive down about two metres.

We saw the sunset from the top of Bartoleme island with a great view of the Pinnacle Rocks and Santiago Island.