Walking on Floreana

Floreana is one of the first inhabited island and has a rich history of intrigue not least the story of the baroness. In the 1930's a German dentist and his mistress, a young family (the Wittmer family who still live on the island) and a self-styled baroness with three men came to settle in the island. Shortly after the baroness and her lovers arrived chaos began. The baroness and her entourage terrorized the other inhabitants while planning to build a luxury hotel.

Eventually the baroness, two of her lovers and the dentist all turned up missing or dead. There has been much investigation searching for what really happened on Floreana, but there have never been any hard answers.

We of course heard all of these stories as we walked through an incredible landscape full of wildlife that hardly blinked as you walked by!The walk along the beach was stunning. Frigate birds swooped above us, turtles laid their eggs in the sand, lighthouse crabs in their hundreds swarmed over the rocks, their brilliant colours contrasting with the dark rocks, the blue sky and the white froth of the ocean.

Suddenly their was a shoal of stingrays forming a black shadow in the turquoise water.........water thrashed as sharks arrived and a deadly battle began........mmm aren't we going snorkelling in half an hour.......mmmmmmm!