Saturday, April 26, 2014

Galapagos Islands - Island San Cristobal

       
Kicker Rock
can i stay here forever?
       Today we took a two hour boat ride to the island of San Cristobal for the kicker rock - leon dormido tour.  It is this beautiful rock in the middle of the ocean, with great snorkeling spots.  We swam with sea turtles, and got to play with the sea lions in the water a few inches from us.  We also saw about 7 sharks a few feet away swimming by right under us.  Unfortunately, we don't have our scuba license the people who went scuba diving on our boat saw manta rays, and huge hammerhead sharks, about 20 of them swimming in a circle above them!
enjoying life
kisses

            At night we walked around the town running into people we have seen along our trip, and walking to sea lion beach, where there were hundreds of sea lions, everywhere, choosing their bed for the night.  It was pretty crazy.
lava beach

            The next day we went to three different beaches that were supposed to be really good for snorkeling.  The first one we swam with a baby sea lion.  It would swim up to us a few inches from our face, looking you in the eye then dip down under you playing.  It was so cute!
sea lion


             The next beach there was a few sea lions swimming right in the shore break so we went snorkeling with them and the last beach was just beautiful.  Lava rocks right on the beach, so many beautiful fish, lots of turtles and we saw a few sting rays.





sea lion beach at night

snorkel spot

sea lions










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