Galapagos day 4 🐬

We sailed overnight to Pitt Point and it was bumpy! We were still moving when I woke up and I was reluctant to come upstairs for breakfast but we anchored shortly after. Our hike was pretty steep but we saw a new booby— red-footed! We got to see some fuzzy white babies in nests. There was another cruise on the hike and it was weird to see other people since our stops have usually just been us. We all discussed how nice it was to have a small group that all gets along and with two guides.

I was worried about the afternoon snorkel because it was another deep water. Everyone was very sweet offering me seasickness meds (fortunately I had one Dramamine left). I didn’t want to skip since it would likely be the last snorkel trip and I’m so glad I didn’t. As we were riding the dinghy to the spoke our boat driver spotted dolphins in the distance. We drove over and the dolphins specifically swam to our boat and started playing, jumping out of the water to show off. The pod was huge and included babies. Yazmany told us to prep to jump in the water quickly because the dolphins enjoy the boats but are wary once you’re in the water. We jumped in and had a few minutes of them swimming all around us. It’s likely the only way to swim “with” dolphins in an ethical way that doesn’t disrupt their natural behavior. Then we went to our planned snorkel spot and had even more of a treat because there were sea lions again, but this time there were only a few and it didn’t feel as overwhelming. They loved to float upside down and stare at us, or swim down and twirl around us.

After lunch we took a dinghy around Cerro Brujo, known as “the cathedral” because the rock has eroded to create cavities you can navigate into with large rock faces on either side. Henry chose to kayak along with the family.

We were all excited when we had a few hours on White Beach to just chill. Some of us laid down, some swam, and the kids covered their dad in a sand mermaid (at Henry’s suggestion). We all wished we could have had more chill beach time but we wouldn’t trade seeing the animals.

At sunset they drove our cruise boat around Kicker Rock, which is apparently a Galapagos icon. We haven’t had great sunsets as it’s been cloudy in the evenings so it was nice we got a good one. Then all the crew came for a farewell cocktail so we could thank them for their hard work. They’ve been excellent all around. Even though we did so much the time went really quickly and we’re sad to leave our boat and our fellow passengers tomorrow.Read more