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Isabella - Trek to Volcán ChicoDay 10 - 3rd August 2013 |
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Part 1 - Going Up
Today marked the start of the trek part of the trip and two nights camping on Volcán Sierra Negra.
Welcome sign at the site of the first campsite...
Welcome sign at the site of the first campsite...
Trekking ponies for another group - we were going on foot...
The
climb started in the mist and Fabian correctly predicted the time it
would take to climb above it. The vegetation at this level was very
used to those conditions and ferns, mosses and liverworts dominated...
Miche and the giant 9km diameter crater of Sierra Negra...
Fausto & Fabian...
Miche and I at the edge - the volcano last erupted in 2005...
The mist we'd walked through earlier tumbling into the crater...
Rowena, Angela, Miche & Alja taking in the view...
Crater panorama...
The group surround a Darwin Daisy...
The temperature really began to rise when we left the mist - Shady tree found - it must be lunchtime
A little warbler checking for clumsy eaters - sorry chap...
A little warbler checking for clumsy eaters - sorry chap...
A finch also checking...
Our local guide Fausto drawing a map of Isabella Island in the soil - highlighting the 5 main volcanoes...
Galapagos Cotton...
Volcan Chico in the mid-distance and Elizabeth Bay in the far distance...
Heading over more recent lavafields to Volcan Chico as the temperature rose further...
