{"id":6850,"date":"2015-05-22T06:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2020-12-19T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T14:25:28","slug":"a-last-day-trip-to-galapagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/05\/22\/ein-letzter-tagesausflug-auf-galapagos\/","title":{"rendered":"One last day trip to the Galapagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>One last full day snorkeling excursion in the Galapagos<\/li>\n<li>Snorkel in the open water with sightings of other white tip reef sharks, green turtles and sea lions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We stand again for today <strong>Snorkeling excursion<\/strong> on the program. The favorite tour to Santa Fe Island was already booked out, which is why we went to the <strong>Daphne Mayor <\/strong>drive. Unfortunately pouring rain is waiting for the five of us for the time being. The <strong>Climate change<\/strong> is also noticeable here in the Galapagos. Although the rainy season is about to end, it rains almost every day, which is extremely atypical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The usual road in the north of the island behind us, we start directly from the ferry port. We&#039;re going out to one <strong>small extinct secondary volcano<\/strong>whose peak protrudes barely two meters from the water. All about from <strong>Sea lions<\/strong> populated island we start for a half hour snorkeling. What makes for a bit of a thrill, after all, tiger sharks hang around every now and then. But only one of the smaller and much more common <strong>White tip sharks<\/strong>, as well as a <strong>turtle<\/strong> and a few sea lions can be seen in the wild waves next to a variety of fish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6851\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_05_22_1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=912020108  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6851\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_05_22_1.jpg\" alt=\"Blue-footed booby\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_05_22_1.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/2015_05_22_1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue-footed booby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We drive over to the <strong>Daphne Mayor<\/strong>, which we circled yesterday morning in friendlier weather. This time, however, there is snorkeling along the way <strong>steep bank <\/strong>on the program. Again I see one <strong>Whitetip shark<\/strong> and a <strong>Sea turtle<\/strong>, to <strong>many colored fish <\/strong>including species that I have not yet encountered anywhere else. The biodiversity of the Pacific is really impressive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After almost an hour in the cool water, we are happy to have the short-sleeved neoprene suits. Before a painful encounter with a <strong>Mini jellyfish <\/strong>Unfortunately, this could not protect me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The food package you brought with you is served on board and the guide has a lot to tell. Two weeks ago he was able to observe three orcas on the same tour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime <strong>pouring rain <\/strong>we reach the wonderful sandy beach to snorkel one last time. Keep in shallow water <strong>numerous young fish<\/strong> which move about in large swarms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We can clearly see them on the beach <strong>Sea turtle tracks<\/strong>who went to the beach last night to lay their eggs. A predatory frigate bird therefore stays here and some empty eggshells can be seen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then we go on the long way back to Puerto Ayora. After a shower we would like to have reserved a hotel in Quito. But the internet connection on the islands thwarted this plan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have agreed to meet again to eat together with them <strong>cozy street stalls<\/strong>. For Niki there is fish in garlic sauce, while I order delicious grilled squid. Then we say goodbye to Nicolai, who will be flying straight home tomorrow. We&#039;ll meet J\u00f6rg and Tina again in Quito.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>One last full-day snorkeling trip<\/li>\n<li>Open water snorkeling with sightings of more whitetip reef sharks, green turtles and sea lions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\nWe stand again for today <strong>Snorkeling excursion<\/strong> on the program. The favorite tour to Santa Fe Island was already fully booked, so we went to <strong>Daphe Mayor <\/strong>drive. Unfortunately pouring rain is waiting for the five of us for the time being. The <strong>Climate change<\/strong> is also noticeable here in the Galapagos. Although the rainy season is about to end, it rains almost every day, which is extremely atypical.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1843,1871,1872,1950],"tags":[1963,270,932,1788,1861,1874,1875,1876,1877,1893,1895,1935,1937,1951,1961,1962],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-ecuador","category-galapagos-inseln","category-isla-santa-cruz","category-isla-daphne-major","tag-tagesausflug","tag-seeloewe","tag-schnorcheln","tag-galapagos","tag-ecuador","tag-isla-santa-cruz","tag-puerto-ayora","tag-galapagosinseln","tag-islas-galapagos","tag-kolumbusarchipel","tag-archipielago-de-colon","tag-haie","tag-suppenschildkroete","tag-daphne-mayor","tag-weissspitzen-riffhai","tag-tigerhai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}