Boobies everywhere

We set sail for Santa Maria at 0300hrs and made landfall at the anchorage near the Devils Crown just after lunch. This visitor site is a small partly submerged crater with a gentle drop off to seaward of more than 100 feet. Because the current was quite strong we drift snorkelled with the dinghy getting into the deep water upstream where numerous Galapagos sharks were swimming about us in mid water, drifting through the shallow crater, then getting out again on the other side. We saw bombies surrounded by dense schools of baitfish. You could form a virtual cave inside the schools that would block out most the light and close in behind you. We moved to the famous Post Office Bay for the night, although unfortunately we could not go ashore because we did not have a qualified guide on board. Large tour boats left in the night and new ones were there at dawn.