August 1, 2013
Punta Espionoza, Fernandina Island
This week is going much too fast.
Fernandina is the youngest and western most
island in
the Galapagos.It is also one of the most volcanically
active
in the region. The latet eruption was is April
2009. In 1968
Within a two week period the floor of the
caldera sank 990 feet
and the the early 1970's the coastline at Punta
Espinoza was
uplifeted some 9 feet during an earthquake.
This morning we did a short walk around the
beach areas and
saw a lot of large marine iguanas. We saw a
very young baby sea
lion and mother and cormorants nesting.
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