My bad; in my last post, I said that we went into a lava tunnel with steep stairs. The lava tunnel we went to in my last post wasn't so bad; they strung lights along the top, the ground was dry, etc...it was today that we went into the eternal darkness of a cave.
Today was on the lighter side of animal viewing. We visited Floreana for the day; in the morning, we went to the lava tunnel and post office bay. A barrel was placed here in the 18th century and passing ships would leave notes and packages for their loved ones. Whenever someone else passed by and saw a package destined through their own route, they would pick it up and drop it off. The barrel we saw wasn't the same barrel of course, but there was a barrel indeed. Inside the barrel were postcards by all the tourists that come by. We left a couple postcards in there, and everyone sifted through all of them to look for countries and areas of our group. There were a few going to Ontario, but we were surprised to not find any going to Toronto.
In the afternoon, we visited a beach on Floreana called the green sand beach. It's green because it's filled with olivine crystals, but the beach wasn't that green. Our tour guide had to sift through the sand to find a couple pieces of crystals. We got our first glimpse of a blue footed booby up close today too! We also visited a lake within the Island that's usually filled with flamingos, but as I said in a previous post, there were zero to be found. We hit up another beach called Flour Beach because the sand is so soft, like flour.
Again, a not so filled day of animal sightings, but and interesting and educational day nonetheless!
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| Crazy lava tunnel |
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| Post Office Bay |
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| The "green" of the Green Sand |
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| Blue footed booby and its baby! |
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| No flamingos in sight. |
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