The first full day of our expedition in the Enchanted Isles took us to one of the jewels of the crown, Bartolome Island. Small and young, it is considered a field guide of geological formations. A boardwalk and wooden staircase of approximately 380 steps took us to the summit, from which we could admire one of the most emblematic landscapes of the Galápagos Islands: the view over Bartolome and nearby Sullivan Bay. In the afternoon we relocated north of Santa Cruz to visit Cerro Dragón. This is the last redoubt of one endemic reptile of that island: the land iguana. Although threatened by introduced species and changes in their habitat, their numbers have recently increased thanks to great conservation efforts by the Galápagos National Park Directorate.
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- 30 Oct 2021
Bartolome and Santa Cruz Island, 10/30/2021, National Geographic Islander
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Gaby Bohorquez, Naturalist
Gaby was born and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Her first job in the Galapagos was on board a 90-passenger cruise ship as the cruise director’s assistant, and she fell under the spell of the Enchanted Isles. She returned to Guayaquil to study at the ...
Read MoreVanessa Gallo, Naturalist
Vanessa Gallo’s grandparents arrived in the Galápagos Islands in 1936, making her the third generation of her family to live and work in this magical archipelago. She left the islands for the capital city of Quito for high school, where she discovere...
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