Hotel Fiesta Puerto Ayora

... One even had bullet wounds from his time as the Navy mascot - but that wasn't bothering him. <br><br>Spent a short while in town looking for sunglasses for A (his third pair of the holiday following another breakage) and BOTH bought a lovely pair of booby tshirts. Both state 'I love boobies'- there's equality for you. Then back on board for welcome cocktails and briefing.<br><br>Then spent the evening sitting atop the boat drinking beer, chatting and getting to know our shipmates. Cool.

... of our rib. She was quite badly cut up but remained cucumber cool in order to give first aid advice to the rest of us...somewhat dumbstruck. Her hand is now on the mend and fortunately, it looks like no permanent damage has been done. <br> I&#8217;ve hardly spoken about the animals and birds on the islands - they are varied and fascinating, but above all, without fear of man. If you consider that I didn&#8217;t have a big zoom lens with me - and take ...

... good chance of qualifying for next year&#8217;s world cup finals, a rare feat for this small nation. The whole town were on alert, Ecuardorian flags and football shirts everywhere. There&#8217;s gonna be a party here tonight I thought. Sure enough halfway through the second half they took the lead and it seemed like the whole town erupted. They fell silent less than 60 seconds later as Uruguay, who never looked like scoring, equalised. The silence was deafening ...

... fish we encountered here swimming close to the rocks were similar to those we had encountered at Bartolome, schools of blue and yellow fish, parrot fish, and others I cannot name. We also swam for a short time with two sea turtles, these were a different type to the huge turtles we had seen before and much smaller. As we swam, I held onto Jody&#8217;s hand and heard him shriek as a huge Sea Lion, bigger than twice my size suddenly swam right in front ...

... and a trip to Bartolome on thursday. We were travelling back to Quito Friday. After some discussion we decided we would go to Floreana Friday and change our flights back to Quito to next Tuesday.<br><br>As compensation the tour company let us use four bikes all day for free. So today, since most tours had now gone, we decided to visit some inland sites. We decided to go up through the centre of the island to a place called El Chato. Here there was a ranch where there ...

... sandy beach and explored for about an hour before we departed once again and headed for a place called Garrapatero. This was where we expected to see flamingo&#8217;s but the plural use of the word wasn&#8217;t quite correct. When we arrived and strode ashore there was a 50metre walk to a shallow lake. On the lake was a solitary Flamingo, not quite what we had expected. We hung out on the beach for about an hour before we clambered back ...

... was $70 for all four of us. It took us to a small island just outside the harbor where there were Sea Lions, after that we headed across the harbor to a small inlet near Las Grietas. We left the boat and walked up a small walkway which overlooked a small bay. From height you could see the shadows of sharks in the water, they were apparently sleeping. We went down for a closer look. We were told by the guide that we could swim with them so I stripped down ...

... had come to cross the line first, and get disqualified. It turned out that the actual winner had done the loop 5 times instead of three. I think, if I was a competitor, I would be extremely annoyed. <br><br>The lady we met yesterday came 5th in the womens race, 1st in her category.<br><br>After the race we walked along the harbor front and came across a an area where fishermen came in with their catch, and were selling fish cutlets and fillets which were sliced there on specially ...

... so I started taking antibiotics and drinking water, which make things better. <br><br> This afternoon we snorkeled around the boat but I decided not to do it due to my sore throat. Saw some nice sea turtles swimming around and a school of tropical fish near the reef. Our last tour today is around the cactus forest where we saw the land iguanas of which was hunted by the settlers to near extinction for their ...