For our first whole day in the Galapagos, the plan was to snorkel at Kicker Rock and a beach named Cerro Brujo and to visit La Loberia. Kicker Rock (the Spanish name is León Dormido, because it’s supposed to look like a sleeping lion), is a large rock formation off of the coast of San Cristobal which took about 45 minutes to get to from the dock in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno.
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Travel Day to the Galápagos
We left the hotel at 6am to return to the airport to catch our flight to the Galápagos. I got my first glimpse of Cotopaxi, which is now smoking. It had a series of small eruptions in the past year which caused the park to be closed, but now it is reopened up to the base camp (the “Refugio”). At the airport, we found out our Galápagos flight was delayed 5 hours. The silver lining: it was a great opportunity for me to finish my homework!
