Town Center Park
Chuck buys
stamps everywhere
Dawrwin Center/TD>
Land Tortoise
Close up
Our anchorange
in full moon
On Tour Boat
We stayed in this anchorage in Santa Cruz Bay while we discovered parts of this island walking around on our own
and then in a few days we took 2 guided tours to more remote locations. The Galapagos are quite barren and mostly
desert in general but strangely the air was moist and cool and the sea was quite cold...I don't know why but we
got more mildew there than anyplace else. Learning about the varied, native, tame wildlife was the most interesting
part. We walked around the Darwin center in the town area and saw lots of "oooold", slow land tortoises and iguanas.
We took a tour of another island, Floriana and a long nature walk with a guide. This also included diving with
dolphins and under volcanis remains. Then, on advice of fellow cruisers, we took a tour of the North Seymour area
to get other views, especially of birds and sea lions. Unfortunately we missed seeing penguins. The Government
limits our freedom to move the boat and anchor other places [saving the ecology there] and we were in a bit of
a hurry to get on to French Polynesia. Also, the more involved tours covering several days were quite expensive
so we made the decision to move on. This is not to say we didn't find these islands fascinating in their unique way.
Town Center Park |
Chuck buys stamps everywhere |
Dawrwin Center/TD> | Land Tortoise |
Close up |
Our anchorange in full moon |
On Tour Boat |
 Greeting a sealion |
 Sea Lion |
 Tour walk |
 Rugged beach |
 Checking out Floriana |
 Floriana Iguana |
 Snorkeling in ruins of volcano |
 Tour lands on beach |
 Yellow finch-like bird/TD> |  Blue footed Booby |
 Booby on next |
 Set of boobies |
 Frigate birds |
 Close up of Frigate |
 Sea iguana |
 Iguana on beach |
 North Seymour beach |
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