After a sneaky nap to warm up from the sea, we headed back to Floreana Island to the famous Post Office Bay. Set up many years ago by Europeans to leave information for other sailors and explorers, the mail box still stands today. Travellers who come here leave postcards, some to remain on Floreana and some addressed to family or themselves. It has become tradition to take a postcard with address close to home and hand deliver it. We have acquired a New Zealand a...

Out from Floreana Island is an old volcano which created an elevated area in the sea but not high enough to form an actual island. Devils Crown is reportedly the best snorkelling spot on the Galápagos. We jumped off the dinghy with our tour guide and very soon after we saw a 2m long hammerhead shark swimming in the deep below us! Not much further on we saw a whole group of rays swimming along the bottom very close to each other. There were so many colourful fish...

Early morning we headed onto Floreana Island - there were loads of sea lions including many small pups between 3-5 months old. We saw once small pup wake up it's mum to feed on her. We then walked around to a huge lagoon where flamingos are often seen but they were elsewhere today. Then around to the next bay where we could see rays and turtles in the surf.

Under the tortoise farm there was a huge lava tunnel reaching back to the volcano. Most of it was caved in but there was a 40m section we could walk through down rocky stairs to. The lighting made it difficult to get a good photo but at the end we could see where a second lava tunnel ran on top of the first.

Further back towards town but still in the highlands we turned off into El Gato farm. There are numerous farms where the giant tortoises can come and go at their leisure - all fences on the farms must start at a hight they can all fit under. There were loads of tortoise all over the green farm munching away at greenery or having a mud bath in the dirty lagoon (apparently this is the key to living over 100 years). The tortoise we did see were all male, the females...