Isla Santiago, Charles Darwin Station
|
|
|

20 viewsWe left before breakfast to avoid being on the lava rocks when they'd heated.
|
|

17 viewsThe view of Isla Santiago from our anchorage in Sullivan Bay. It glowed like Uluru.
|
|

18 viewsA male lava lizard crawling around.
|
|

17 viewsWhen the lava cools it doesn't always hold together.
|
|

18 viewsRed rock and black.
|
|

17 viewsOne of the first plants to break down the lava flows.
|
|

20 viewsBlack lightning.
|
|

17 viewsIt looks like they allowed cattle on here, but that's just sulphur.
|
|

18 views
|
|

18 viewsThe lava made some interesting shapes.
|
|

19 viewsBjorn's face also made some interesting shapes. "Ugh, more rocks"
|
|

19 viewsThis is probably about the strangest stance I could come up with and is probably Bjorn's revenge for the earlier photo.
|
|

17 viewsA dried up river... of blood. Bet you thought I was going to say lava.
|
|

19 viewsA very large broken record.
|
|

18 viewsAt least my head is out of the gutter.
|
|

18 viewsWe took a panga ride around to nearby Bartolome island after breakfast to check out the penguins.
|
|

18 viewsThis penguin contemplates jumping into the cool pool on the other side.
|
|

20 viewsThe water was incredible.
|
|

19 viewsAll dressed up and nowhere to go.
|
|

19 viewsThe pinnacle looked like Big Ben from some post-apocalyptic future. At least after the apocalypse, London's weather will be nicer.
|
|
|