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Isabela Slideshow
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Isabela
Travel Blogs from Isabela, Ecuador
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Beautiful Isabela
This is a top pick! Isabela was a study in contrasts. We started the morning by coming ashore at the sleepy - nearly comatose, town of Villamil. We walked through town - if you are coming to the Galapagos for relaxation and you want to stay in a nice ...
Ay ay skipper!
This is a top pick! ... and me head off to see if we can find some more wildlife. Please pinch me. In the space of a small island off Isla Isabela we find the Galapagos penguin, sea lions and masses and masses of iguanas. Dreams are coming true thick and fast on Galapagos! ...
Giant Tortoise breeding centre, Galapagos islands
... and flew to the island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos. I spent one night there then got a boat to the island of Isabela, where I am staying for the rest of the month. Whilst on Santa Cruz we went to visit the Charles Darwin research station, ...
Isabela Island
Feb 2nd - Took a boat trip around some of the island today, saw blue footed boobies, sea lions, penguins, rays and loads of iguanas which are everywhere. The wildlife is as they say, really tame and all over the place. We stopped to ...
Bar De Beto
We got to go out on the boat for the first time in Isabela today. Our guide, Peter, took us out to Isla Tortuga, or Broter to the locals, for a fishing and snorkeling expedition. It was around a 30/40 minute boatride out to the island that was ...
Trip to the Highlands
... to the islands in order to protect the Panama Canal after Pearl Harbor was attacked. She explained to us what life was like on Isabela years ago and went through some crazy things that had happened to her family. She lived all alone in a very small wooden ...
Dama China and Voli
Today was the final day of our first class. Wow time has flown by. I am happy to be moving on into the more learning heavy portion of our trip where we get to learn about the wonderful environment that we are in. The end of the class does mean an end to ...
Rain ruins things here, like cockfighting
I woke up pretty early for a Saturday today cause I wanted to find out if I was going to get to go with my padre out to Isla de Tortuga and do some fishing and lobster diving. There was a huge rainstorm so he said we weren't going to be able to do it. ...
Terrestrial Biology, MSC 421 - Get Owned
Finally finished with Terrestrial Biology! Ripped it up again in the second week and just finished the final paper before everyone else. You know this knee problem seems to have a positive correlation with my grades. I cant play any sports or go surfing ...
Snorkeling again and preparing for Biology
Alright so the official class journals are now over so the entries are about to get a lot shorter. Today was a really relaxed day because it was a changeover between classes. I slept in till about 9:30, I know some of you are surprised to hear me call ...
Getting our Bearings and Hitting the Waves
I got up this morning to the sound of the Rooster next door and the Frigate birds out for their morning hunt in the ocean right outside the back yard. It was a little before 7:00 am and breakfast was at 7:30 so I decided to take a stroll down the beach ...
last day in Isabela
Ultimo giorno a Isabela e ultimo vero giorno di vacanza. Visitiamo la parte a nord di puerto Villamil e vediamo il museo delle lacrime (i resti di un sito penitenziario), un mirador con una vista meravigliosa, il tunnel di lava e vicina la playa ...
Urvina Bay, Isabela
... non-issue but I have to say that my nose is one of the worst burns I've ever had. Mostly I am ready to go home now. If we were leaving tomorrow I'd be fine with that. But we have 12 more days in Ecuador - we are literally 1/2 done ...
First Week of Biology Done
So now that we have a lot of work I am just doing entries whenever I feel like it, definitely not everyday. We had a really packed week this week. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday we were studying Botany, plants. On the first day of Botany we had a long ...
Las Tintoreras (White Tip Reef Sharks)
This morning in class, we had our essay exam on My Father's Island before departing out for a snorkel of the bay that Sarah had signed up for since she is leaving on Sunday. Only a couple of us went but it turned out to be a really good trip. On the way ...
First Day of Class
Today we had our first official day of class at IOI. We started trying to figure out what kind of community service we might be able to do to help out the community and help us integrate into the community. Sarah had a bunch of ideas but Johann let us ...
My First Song
Today was a pretty standard morning. I had a Spanish omlet for breakfast, that I had to choke down because it had onions and peppers in it, but I felt to bad to tell her I did not like it. It is nice that she waits until I am downstairs to make breakfast ...
Vulcano Sierra Negra
Salita a uno dei vulcani dell'Isola... saliamo a cavallo e già questa è un'esperienza! Il fango, la pioggia e il resto però sono dimenticati appena arriviamo alla cima e visitiamo le colate, i tunnel, le bocche... bellissimo. La discesa per fortuna è ...
Da santa cruz a isabela
... del trasferimento arrivviamo nella più grande delle isole dell'arcipelago (più grande di tutte le altre isole messe insieme). Isabela mi colpisce subito: è ancora molto "selvaggia" e poco visitata (anche per lo standard già basso del resto delle ...
Football with some local kids
Today we didn't have any major field trips, but our class in the morning came over to my house to interview Mirella about her life and about the women’s coop that is right next door, called OMAI. It was interesting to hear about her life because ...
Matthias, the radical ecologist, and a BBQ
... in the morning because we had a guest speaker come in and talk to us. His name was Matthias, born in Germany but lived in Ecuador for most of his live and the Galapagos for about the last 20 years. He has been one of the people fighting for the ...
Bright and Early
Although it was a Saturday we had to get up at 5:00 this morning to go see the farmer's market that takes place every Saturday at around 5:30. Needless to say, I was not very excited about this but I figured it would be good to see it at least once. I ...
Shark Encounter!
... I went to visit the nearby island of Isabela. 2 hours away by 'launcher' boat it's probably the roughest seas I've encountered. Isabela has a different vibe to Santa Cruz, very, very quiet. There are no paved roads, only sandy tracks and the entire ...
Chill Day
Today was back to regular class in the morning at 8:30. We went over Plundering Paradise, and I brought up some of the points that Sarah, Matthias and I talked about yesterday. After class, Evan and I headed over to CEA to meet with Sarah about the ...
Galapagos Island #3
... to the average persons mind is how up close and personal you can get with the animals....well now thats changed for me, and Isabela is to blame. An island paradise is a fitting description for this place, and youll soon know why. First thing's first, we ...
That's the way, A-a A-a, I like it!
We landed on Isabela, the largest Galapagos island but one of the youngest and one of the least visited. Isabela itself has several volcanoes, most of which are still active, making it one of the most volcanically active places on the planet. Two of them ...
swimmimng with sealions
There was no school today and using this to our advantage, we took the two o´clock ferry to Isabella, the largest Island in the archepelago. I´m saying we took the ferry- it´s nothing like the P&O cross channel ones, not even close, but a small, ...
A Day I Will Never Forget
The day was finally here to do our first dive in the Galapagos. We met at the dive shop at 7:30 to get our gear together and head out with Flavio, our divemaster. The plan was to do a weight checkout in the bay and then head to the island of Tortuga. I ...
Hittin the Highlands Again and Weird Checkers
Today we took our second trip to the highlands of Isabela to do a couple interviews on 2 different fincas. Kasha, a peace corps worker, came up with us and it was really interesting to hear her perspective of the island after being here for 2 months. She ...
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