27/5/09 1.20.63S 89.39.04W

Flying Cloud
Julian Nichols
Wed 27 May 2009 03:17
Jo and I were woken from our sleep last night by quite heavy footsteps on the deck. I told Jo not to worry as it was probably Matt moving around. However within seconds we began hearing some deep breathing and then one very loud bowel movement, hopefully it wasn't Matt - and Jo became increasingly convinced we had an animal on board (other than Matt). As i walked into the cabin, i saw a large message had been left behind - by a visiting Sea lion who was making a hasty exit back down the Port transom! After some intensive cleaning (sea lion pooh smells really bad) all was back to normal and i went back to bed.

However, we were up again at 4.30am for our departure to Espanola Island, 48 miles away to the East.

The girls were good and didn't wake up until around 6am.

JPEG image



Espanola is the oldest of the Galapagos Islands and is very flat. However it has an enormous sea lion colony at Gardner Beach.

JPEG image



We enjoyed the walk and a quick swim - before the male sealion saw us off.

JPEG image



A quick kiss......

JPEG image



And the beautiful Flying Cloud.....

JPEG image



We motored over to Gardner Islet in the afternoon to swim with the sea lions. Very politely they obliged and Daisy and Ella were mesmerized by their speed and how close they came (sometimes an inch or so).

JPEG image



Ella also got to grips with her snorkel and mask.

Attachment: sealdive-iPhone.m4v
Description: Binary data

Blog Entries

2010
Aug 2010 Jul 2010
2009
Nov 2009 Oct 2009 Aug 2009 Jul 2009 Jun 2009 May 2009 Apr 2009 Jan 2009