Friday, January 22, 2010

Snorkeling with turtles and sea lions

Today we started early in the morning to see a sunrise around the Kicker Rock. And I must say it was the most astonishing view of our trip up to date. Rock was perfectly lit by the sun and we encircled it to take picture from each side. Then we had nice breakfast and went to the little bay for last snorkeling on the cruise. This snorkeling was really impressive! We had seen sea lions swimming in the water, turtles, a lot of different kinds of fish and even stingray. I spent over an hour swimming in the water and I liked it very much. Visibility was perfect on that day and I enjoyed using my Canon D10 underwater camera.
After snorkeling we get back on board and navigated to the small city nearby - Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. After lunch and siesta we disembarked to the pier (it means we had dry landing) then visited Interpretation Center. In that place you can learn a lot about Galapagos – how it was created and how it is changing over time. You can also see some models of the islands and read about human culture here. When you leave the museum, there's some trail leading to the nice view point up there. From this point you can observe some frigate birds and nice landscape of the area. I took pictures and went back to the village for some beer. We also wanted to find Internet cafe and publish blog entries, but to our surprise there were no Internet in the cafe – we checked 3 of them and didn't found Internet working. Just for your info – an hour of Internet access cost 1.80 USD. So after such defeat we sat down in the bar for Mojito, but after few minutes our acquaintance from the boat came and ask us to meet them in different place. So we quickly drunk our Mojito and moved to the other bar where almost all people from our boat were. There we had some beers and ceviche and long discussion about our guide, especially about his behavior. I will leave conclusion without comments...
After getting back on board, our guide invited us to final briefing meeting and explained what we'll do next day, or rather morning, because tomorrow we depart back to Quito. He also informed ask about envelopes waiting for us in the cabins. We should put separate tips for the crew and guide. The cruise in general was really nice and interesting - one guy even knew some polish words, because once was in Gdansk. The only bad thing about it was guide called Franklin. If you ever will go to Galapagos on Amigo or another yacht, just check if Franklin is not there. I believe other people have much more attitude and respect to their customers.

1 comment:

Mike said...

On behalf of your Polish friends and colleagues: Chris, don't piss us off with these photos! Here we have 12 Celsius degrees below zero and it's getting worse and worse...