by galapagoscruises — published on April 15th, 2009
If you love birds, then make sure to include Genovesa in your Galapagos island cruise.
Why would you put yourself through a night sailing in roughs and getting sea sick like me?
Because from all the islands in your Galapagos cruise, Genovesa is the ideal place to watching countless beautiful birds you wont see anywhere else.
We were lucky our guide spotted a short eared Galapagos owl, which as you can see on the picture blends in perfectly with the Galapagos environment.
Walking from Prince Philip’s Steps towards the black cliffs, it’s cute to see pairs of birds nesting, utterly protected inside the cliffs.
This red-footed booby is the smallest booby in Galapagos and the only one that nests in trees.
Other birds you will surely see without needing binoculars are pigeons, herons, sea-gulls and the above red footed boobies, while frigatebirds fly endlessly searching for food.
If you do love birds and you don’t mind to get seasick (or make sure to bring anti-seasick pills, which I unfortunately forgot…), then make sure to include Genovesa in your Galapagos islands cruise.
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by galapagoscruises — published on January 2nd, 2009
After visiting Rabida Galapagos, our Galapagos island holiday took us to Bartolome Island.
This is a very popular Galapagos cruise destination but it is worthwhile a visit.
Especially if you love snorkeling and sea-life like we do, Bartolome Island is paradise.
Penguins are just shooting next to you and the sea lions are so curious, that they come to you instead of you having to look for them once you are in the water.
It’s wonderful how these sea creatures were playing with us and with our flippers.
Make sure to bring a disposable underwater camera when you plan your Galapagos island holiday: it’s well worth your while when you love snorkeling!
At the end of the afternoon, we climbed the Bartolome island volcano, saw a huge Galapagos snake on the way and admired to view on top of the Bartolome island volcano admiring Pinnacle rock and Sullivan Bay.
Pinnacle rock sticking out in the middle-right
We had a lovely dinner on our little Galapagos cruise ship and headed from Bartolome Island for a night’s travel to Genovesa Island. (see our next post)
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by galapagoscruises — published on December 29th, 2008
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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