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Today began very early.\u00a0 We got up, and made the kilometre and a half, or so, walk to the dock in Puerto Ayroa, arriving by 7am.\u00a0 Today we were off on a small voyage to\u00a0 nearby Floreana Island, about 50km south of Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n
We boarded the taxi from the quayside to our waiting boat, and once we were all aboard motored south.<\/p>\n
Floreana was our ‘lunch time destination’.\u00a0 Our real port of call was the Devil’s Crown, and collapsed volcano, now home to corals and fish of all varieties.<\/p>\nThe top of a now submerged volcano, The Devil’s Crown is host to a wide variety of fish and marine life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Our task was to map the organisms living inside ‘the Crown’.\u00a0 This is an incredibly important task, and a real privilege to do.\u00a0 The Devil’s Crown has been closed to tourists for several years now, after unscrupulous and careless tourists and tourist boats damaged the organisms inside the sunken cauldera.\u00a0 Getting permission to enter it was really something.\u00a0 I will post a video of some of the marine life that we encountered soon.<\/p>\n
We were dropped off by our boat and swam with the current through the Crown in 2 groups.\u00a0 It was a very exciting swim, but extremely difficult.\u00a0 The current was incredibly strong and it involved a lot of effort to remain in the area we were interested in.<\/p>\nThe first group exits the Devil’s Crown, and is picked up bythe waiting boat, before taking the second group round to repeat the exercise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
This was my first snorkeling in open water, and I only went around once.\u00a0 The students who have done lots of this sort of thing went around twice.\u00a0 The results of this will help us to understand how marine life can recover when given the opportunity, free from human activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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