After visiting Puerto Egas and having lunch we headed off to our next stop, Rabida Island.
Rabida is a small island, less than 2 square miles in area. Much of it is rocky coastline.
But Rabida has one very unique aspect……
The stunning red sand beach. The red sand is a product of iron rich lava that formed the island. And this beach is the only access point for visitors to the island. It’s makes for quite a dramatic stop.
There were so many unique stops in this archepelago!
A bit further inland is a salt water lagoon, where we saw Flamingos.
I was quite surprised to see them! Apparently, flamingos are very strong fliers, and it is thought that they first migrated to the islands all the way from South America and perhaps even the Caribbean!
I’ll never look at them the same again!
As we headed back to the shore, the red sand made for quite a back drop as we hit the “Golden Hour”.
Back on board, I quickly noticed that the deck had been rearranged a bit. Well, after freshening up we were back on the rear deck.
And there was this flag unfurled…..
Apparently, it was “party time”…….
It was a fun; pirate themed time……
And then it was time for us to contribute to the festivities. Remember the evening we had dinner at the Captain’s table? Well, one of questions we were asked….very casually during our chat was what would be our “spirit animal”. I mentioned really being drawn to the Flightless Cormorants. Well, it had been documented and we were now required to imitate that creature to music! Yikes…. I hope that video will never make it out of the Galapagos!
And after the festivities, we headed back to our cabins to “recover” before dinner.
That duck in a red wine – balsamic reduction was quite good!
Back in our cabin we noticed that we’d been given some nice chocolate as an appreciation gift.
We were actually kind of sad that our cruise was nearly over!