Bartolome Island is a very small island just east of San Salvador Island. While it is a rather insignificant island in the Galapagos, it is also sort of the signature island. It contains Pinnacle Rock. This is the classic (though not at all typical) Galapagos photo. Pinnacle Rock is not a natural formation. It was formed from the U.S. military detonation and bomb testing during World War II. So when you see it in the movie “Master and Commander”, it didn’t really exist in that form back in the movie’s time. But it does make for a great photo.

The next two photos were taken near our landing site on the island. The nearest boat in the second photo was our day boat which we used to get here from Santa Cruz Island.

The last photo is just a shot of the ground or hillside. It was just old lava flows. I think we could have counted all the plant life that we saw on this island on both hands.