We had breakfast at 7 AM with Naranjilla juice. Luis, the bartender, explained that naranjilla is not an orange, as the spanish name suggests, but it does look like a small orange on the outside. The juice was very tasty. Its my new favorite juice.
Overnight we sailed and arrived at Post Office Bay at Floreana Island. The bay is named for a centuries-old "post office". First used by pirates, whalers, and explorers the post office consists of a barrel into which mail is placed. It is a cooperative system - each person dropping off mail checks the rest of the mail to see if it is destined for his or her own country, in which case you take the mail back and eventually it gets delivered. Today, the same things happens, but now it is tourists mailing postcards. It is interesting to see all the postcards from people from all around the world. We took a few to mail, even though none were destined for Bermuda. We also saw some remnants of a Norwegian fish canning operation and our guide told his version of the Floreana Story, an unsolved mystery about the disappearance of some of the early, eccentric settlers.
