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Floreana: Punta Cormorant

The landing is on a beach with sand of an unusual dark colour. The official description says it is green, but that must be because there is no word for that colour, not even in Spanish. There is a lagoon behind the beach where we were told we might see flamingos. The guide was quite apologetic about the absence of flamingos, but we saw a pelican in the distance. A gravel path leads past the lagoon across an isthmus to another beach with real waves and sand of the right colour and texture for walking on in bare feet. Birds too.
0830: Across the lagoon
0830: Across the lagoon
0816: Pelican on final approach
0816: Pelican on final approach
0828: Dry hillside
0828: Dry hillside
0815: Edge of the lagoom
0815: Edge of the lagoom
0832: Looking east
0832: Looking east
0834: This is where we took off our shoes
0834: This is where we took off our shoes
0836: Beach east of Punta Cormorant
0836: Beach east of Punta Cormorant
0840: Floreana mocking bird
0840: Floreana mocking bird
0856: Pelican
0856: Pelican
0858: Sally Lightfoot crab
0858: Sally Lightfoot crab
0861: Mocking bird in retreat
0861: Mocking bird in retreat
0852: Punta Cormorant
0852: Punta Cormorant