Galapagos – turtles
Galapagos - turtles On our voyage through the archipelago of Galapagos, we meet shortly before Sunday walk on a volcanic lake. An ideal anchorage for the night, as our captain says .... In the south of Genovesa, we find the circular, high-clad Darwi [...]
Galapagos – crabs
Galapagos - crabs Cliff crabs are also found on the coasts of South America, but their tanks are black-green there and only during the mating season the scissors turn red. There they have many enemies, so a striking color would be deadly. In Galápago [...]
Galapagos – seals and sea lions
Galapagos - seals - sea lions The curious Galápagos sea lions are available on all beaches. The ancestors of the sea lions came from the Californian South Coast and have developed on Galápagos to its own subspecies. Sea lions are pronounced herd anim [...]
Galapagos – seals and sea lions
Galapagos - seals With our motor ship we arrive at a place where our guide suspects larger colonies of seals and sea lions. At the landing sites and the beach we only get with our small dinghy. The sea lions are in the surf hardly distinguishable fro [...]
Galapagos – iguanas & lizards
Galapagos - iguanas & lizards When Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos Islands, it was swarming with iguanas in some areas so he had trouble setting up his tent. Today they are numerous only on Fernandina. On Santiago e.g. they were completely e [...]
Galapagos – Coastline & Beaches II
Galapagos - Coastline & Beaches II The coastline and beaches in the Galapagos archipelago are an up-close natural experience of a very special kind. We feel in this pristine and almost untouched landscape, how gigantic the forces of nature and ho [...]
Galapagos – Coasts & Beaches
Galapagos - Coastal & Beaches I The coasts and beaches of the Galapagos are not a classic tourist destination. The opposite is the case. The coasts and beaches belong to the living wildlife here. Here is one of the few places in the world where n [...]
Galapagos – Evolution III
Galapagos - Evolution III The fresh black Pahoehoelava (Pahoehoe = Polinesisch: rope), also known as knitted lava forms the curious forms in the cold. In the upper area you can see that the roof of this building has already collapsed. Right another f [...]
Galapagos – Evolution II
Galapagos - Evolution II The strong surf forms from the lava strange and wondrous structures ..... which are always impressive in their variety. On our boat trip through the Galapagos archipelago we pass a completely flat lava island, in the middle o [...]
Galapagos – Evolution I
Galapagos - Evolution I The active volcanoes of the Galápagos Islands are oceanic shield volcanoes, which are initially built by basalt magma undersea. By constantly occurring lava flows forms a layered rather flat cone, which rises steeply only at i [...]