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This is crossover day, so there are people leaving and joining the ship, and we get a period of quiet for a few hours on a very empty boat. First up though,(that was a 7.30am call for the Frigates), was a trip to the lovely soft sands of Santa Cruz where we saw more turtle trails, egg holes in the sand and some pink flamingos. The water here was lovely, no waves, clear, fantastic fish again, including small puffer/box fish in the shallows. Siena got her feet wet, Derry as usual climbed all over one of the Gardeners, whoever had Oscar! Finn this time sat quietly watching it all go by. He made up for it later, though, in the ship pool and hot tub !!
Travelling with the kids is a fascinating experience - in 'normal' life you don't get to see them all day every day, so to see them change and interact throughout the day is very different for us. It has its frustrations - we're not regimented people so the prospect to us of working to a strict timetable is a challenge but the kids don't seem to notice it. On the other hand, dealing with them when they are tired and don't want to do some activity or other, when we all have to travel as a unit is a big challenge. I wonder whether we'll synchronise our 'up' times and 'down' times as we spend more time together - or, more likely, they will time themselves so that at any one point, one of us doesn't want to play, and we'll be constantly chivvying! It's easy to forget that we're only one week in, so up to now (other than the distances and flights) it's pretty much like any holiday. There's so much more to come!
The afternoon hike, for all of us this time J was spent on North Seymour dodging between nests of mating blue boobies, courting frigates and other aerial delights (along with the customary and no longer photo-worthy sea lions, land and marine iguanas!) - the island is simply teeming with birds - apparently so because there are no other predators - hawks, for example - and every few steps you come across a whistling, 'displaying' bird of one denomination or another.It's interesting how the islands can be so similar but so different from each other, with different endemic species on each one.
Roberto's briefing this evening was so descriptive of the colourful history, ghost stories and mysteries of Floreana that Siena decided that she really didn't want to go to the island so as not to risk a mysterious disappearance or ghost.
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