Rabida, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

This morning we visted Rabida - a red sand island with sealions.  We walked up to a viewing point which was apparently used in the film Master and Commander - its beautiful. We snorkelled again today - we saw starfish red and blue ones, a large ...

On our fourth day, we sailed to two islands. In the morning, we stopped at James Bay (Puerto Egas) in Santiago Island. This was where I got the chance to snorkel with huge marine tortoises (so many of them) along with more sea lions and fish swimming over ...

... , and we all obey and arrive to breakfast... Pavlov would have been proud!) we travelled by dingy to the seashell-pink sands of Rabida Island. Here we saw a pelican nesting area on the beach, and then we set off on the short path across the island, gazing ...

... extinct volcano south of Rabida and below Santiago. Santiago the much larger of the two islands has a resident colony of Galapagos Penguins who are under constant surveillance by camping scientists studying their behavior. Our snorkeling outing ...