Having crossed from Santa Cruz overnight, at 6:00 a.m. we dropped anchor off the island of Floriana – the smallest of the inhabited islands with a population of around 200 people.
A panga cruise took us around a bay west of Punta Cormorant. Here the lava flows had either slowly cooled or reached the sea and were suddenly quenched to produce fractured masses of tephra and trapped already cold volcanic rock.
Later we repositioned to the Devil’s Crown, an eroded volcanic crater with a jagged crown shaped rim.