Sunday, 17 August 2014
Right now it's about 8 pm in Galapagos, we just had dinner (chicken, rice and beet root, and a delicious lemon mousse which tasted milky and fresh), and I am sitting at the top most part of the boat under a star full of skies, and at the side of the boat, I can see flying fishes, sea lions and sharks swimming. It doesn't get any better than this.
This morning we had eggs and sausages for breakfast, but for some odd reason although I enjoyed it, it didn't go down well with me with the result that I felt sea sick again for most of the day. After breakfast we went to North Seymour Island for a short trek. There I saw swallow tail gulls (they mate for life, when one dies, the other waits a year before looking for a mate, but the Galápagos penguins which are not in this island, mate for life, when one dies the other dies after a few days out of loneliness or hunger), lava lizards, land iguanas (they have yellow underbellies and brown skin), 2 kinds of frigate birds, magnificent and minor, but only the male magnificent frigate bird (the male has a red air pouch to attract females, the bigger the better, and purple to black feathers, the chick is white on top, the minor male frigate bird which I didn't see also has red pouch, with greenish feathers), blue footed boobies (the males are smaller, makes a whistling whooshing sound during mating), various birds and lizards.
I think I was stung by something on my finger and it was damn painful but I'm not sure what it was. I don't seem to be suffering from any consequences so I guess it's fine. Then snorkeling, I saw a fur sea lion! But only one. There were supposed to be hammerhead sharks but since I don't swim I didn't see any.
Then lunch, which I ate extremely carefully as I was feeling ill, although again it was delicious, fried shrimp and vegetables. Then we travelled for 2 hours to our next destination, the Black Turtle Cove in Santa Cruz Island (one of the islands that Charles Darwin was not on). Here we took a dinghy ride and I saw mangroves (red and white), seagulls and brown nuddies (a type of bird, not sure of spelling - these birds follow pelicans around with the hope of stealing their fish when the pelican tries to let water out of its beak/pouch), white tipped sharks, black turtles, hawksbill turtles, golden rays, eagle rays, yellow warbler and other birds and fishes.
Then back to the boat, I had a shower and washed my hair after more than a week!!! Dinner and here I am under the stars watching sharks and sea lions swimming by.
Right now it's about 8 pm in Galapagos, we just had dinner (chicken, rice and beet root, and a delicious lemon mousse which tasted milky and fresh), and I am sitting at the top most part of the boat under a star full of skies, and at the side of the boat, I can see flying fishes, sea lions and sharks swimming. It doesn't get any better than this.
This morning we had eggs and sausages for breakfast, but for some odd reason although I enjoyed it, it didn't go down well with me with the result that I felt sea sick again for most of the day. After breakfast we went to North Seymour Island for a short trek. There I saw swallow tail gulls (they mate for life, when one dies, the other waits a year before looking for a mate, but the Galápagos penguins which are not in this island, mate for life, when one dies the other dies after a few days out of loneliness or hunger), lava lizards, land iguanas (they have yellow underbellies and brown skin), 2 kinds of frigate birds, magnificent and minor, but only the male magnificent frigate bird (the male has a red air pouch to attract females, the bigger the better, and purple to black feathers, the chick is white on top, the minor male frigate bird which I didn't see also has red pouch, with greenish feathers), blue footed boobies (the males are smaller, makes a whistling whooshing sound during mating), various birds and lizards.
I think I was stung by something on my finger and it was damn painful but I'm not sure what it was. I don't seem to be suffering from any consequences so I guess it's fine. Then snorkeling, I saw a fur sea lion! But only one. There were supposed to be hammerhead sharks but since I don't swim I didn't see any.
Then lunch, which I ate extremely carefully as I was feeling ill, although again it was delicious, fried shrimp and vegetables. Then we travelled for 2 hours to our next destination, the Black Turtle Cove in Santa Cruz Island (one of the islands that Charles Darwin was not on). Here we took a dinghy ride and I saw mangroves (red and white), seagulls and brown nuddies (a type of bird, not sure of spelling - these birds follow pelicans around with the hope of stealing their fish when the pelican tries to let water out of its beak/pouch), white tipped sharks, black turtles, hawksbill turtles, golden rays, eagle rays, yellow warbler and other birds and fishes.
Then back to the boat, I had a shower and washed my hair after more than a week!!! Dinner and here I am under the stars watching sharks and sea lions swimming by.
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