This island is the most northerly we visited and involved a long ( 8 hour ) overnight sail from San Cristobal. It was certainly worth the journey. Darwin Bay, the first landing site is actually the caldera of an extinct and partially eroded volcano. It has a white coral beach fringed with Opuntia cacti and mangroves. There was a wide variety of bird life including, swallow tailed gulls, red footed boobies, great frigate birds and even a yellow-crowned night heron.

Swallow tailed gull Frigate bird with chick Frigate Birds Swallow tailed gull Darwin Bay Swallow tailed gull Frigate bird feeding chick Red footed booby Swallow tailed gull Red footed booby Opuntia Red footed booby Red footed booby Red feet of booby Mocking bird on Opuntia Frigate bird chick Frigate bird with chick centre of attention Frigate bird rough terrain Frigate bird chick Frigate bird chick Iguana Swallow tailed gull Genovesa Cactus finch Galapagos dove Swallow tailed gull Galapagos dove Yellow crowned night heron Galapagos dove Yellow crowned night heron Sea-lions Sea-lion Sea-lions Frigate bird chick

Prince Philip's Steps - A dry landing with a steep climb to the top of some dramatic cliffs. At the top we found nesting masked boobies and red-footed boobies with some great frigate birds. The landscape is impressive with strange lava formations.

approaching the landing site in the panga nearly there a steep climb view from the top masked booby "nest" masked booby with egg masked boobies masked booby with eggs masked booby "nest" great frigate birds Jürgen gets a low angle shot red-footed booby red-footed booby The red feet Looking at an owl lava formatiom Down the steps Sunset at Genovesa