| After a 45 minute cruise along the northern shores of
Espaņola we will go ashore at Punta Suarez in the afternoon. The path leads us past the nesting sites of blue footed and masked boobies, rising gently until we get to a plateau with steep cliffs. This is the area where at the end of April and in the beginning of May the waved albatrosses arrive to mate, nest and raise their young. In December, the young albatross use the updraft of air at the edge of the cliffs to soar into their element for the first time. A colony of reddish colored marine iguanas usually sunbathes on the rocks along the foot of the cliffs, often one on top of the other as they try to find the most advantageous position. Apart from these most noticeable inhabitants,
Espaņola is home to snakes (harmless), finches, mocking birds, owls, lava herons, oyster catchers and swallow tailed gulls, among many others.
This was our last visit during our week and we will head back to the airport on Baltra
Island.
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