It was a bit rough during the night, especially for the first couple of hours after we set sail but we all made it in one piece to Floreana. After breakfast we took the dinghies to Cormorant Point, landing on beach with brown sand and green olivine crystals. A couple of sealions were on the beach but too lazy to be disturbed from their sleep. We saw our first baby blue-footed boobie, sitting on the top of the dune. Walking off the beach, we headed towards a lag...

We were having a whole day on land today and to ensure we weren't going to miss out on a meal, we prepared our own lunch box after breakfast. The dinghy had us on the public dock at 8am and it was no surprise to see sealions and penguins there. We boarded a bus to take us to a Giant Tortoise breeding centre. The centre had 931 tortoises from the newly born to older couples kept for breeding. The tortoises are kept in the centre for 8 years before being released...

There are strict rules for the National Park in Galapagos and one of the rules is about the number of people in an area at any one time. What this means is that all cruises must register, and get approval, for their itineraries including times and number of people on the tour. Generally this didn't affect us apart from this morning. Breakfast was brought forward to 6:30am so that we could do our tour of Punta Moreno before another cruise did their tour. On the ...