Before lunch that same day we enjoyed a lecture by Richard Dawkins, “Responses to The God Delusion,” then one after lunch by Eddie Tabash, “The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms.”
(I will summarize these in another post.) Then we landed at Punta Cormorant on the island of Floreana.
The island had three large volcanoes that reminded me of the pyramids of Gizeh. We were promised dozens of pink flamingoes on the nature hike, but I skipped the walk to snorkel for my very first time. To my surprise, I took to breathing through my mouth underwater pretty quickly. Immediately, in fact. And I realized that I didn’t need the floatation device at all.
Among many kinds of fish, as well as sea urchins, I saw the beautiful King Angelfish. Following others’ advice, I took out my contact lenses and didn’t wear my glasses, and frankly, the water magnifies everything, anyway. What you cannot see you swim close enough until you can see it. The fish did not mind.
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