After Baltra we visited Rabida Galapagos: our second island during our Galapagos island holiday.

It took our Galapagos island cruise one complete night to sail from Baltra to Galapagos. We want to tell you to make sure you bring your anti seasick pills with you, otherwise you could be in for a very sleepless night.

But once your stomach has settled, your travel to the Galapagos becomes priceless when you wake up just before the shore of Rabida Island.

We had breakfast on our Galapagos cruise ship admiring from far a big colony of sea lions basking on the red-brown lava soil of Rabida.

After breakfast we jumped into our "panga" to set foot on Rabida. Although the sea lions couldn’t be bothered with our presence, our guide warned us not to get to close into the territory of the dominant male. Especially since there were a few newborn sea lions present

We admired lots of blue-footed boobies fishing of the coast of Rabida Island. The island itself is quite rough with only Palo Santo trees and Opuntia cacti.

The main reason however that trips to the Galapagos stop at Rabida Island is the snorkeling: we saw abundance of colourful fishes including a white-tipped reef shark as big as me, scary…

During lunch we sailed from Rabida Galapagos to Isla Bartolome (see our next post).

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I keep on repeating this: the animals on the Galapagos Islands just never learned that they should be afraid for humans…

Which is great for us, so we can come up close to them, but sometimes it can be bad not to fear humans with "bad eyesight"…

You have to experience it before you believe it: the first Island we embarked on was "Isla Bachas". After some strolling around and seeing some flamingos and Galapagos marine iguanas, we wanted to sit down and take it all in…

Until the guide shouted: "don’t you sit there"!…

Because "there" looked like this:

Galapagos marine iguana not moving an inch…

One of us almost sat down straight on an iguana… warming up in the sun before diving back into the cold water. It’s true: a cold reptile doesn’t move that fast, but these iguanas… you can just sit next to them and they pretend you are not even there!

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