Grand Hotel Lobo de Mar Puerto Ayora

... br>
hospital project, mentioned in this Sunday's NY Post:

http://www.nypost.com/p/li festyle/pets/island_grrrs_KGE0A4mkj8J6M gnXcyll4H

Please have a look and leave a comment if you approve!

The website for the project has just launched yesterday, here:

http://ecuadoranimalshelte r.org/

This idea started as a Sea Shepherd Galapagos project, and lots of
groups like SPECIEES and Animal Balance have since made the launch of ...

... older islands.

Our activity on this island include hiking up the volcanic crater to see the grand view of the Galapagos island, from there, we descend down to the yellow sand beach for snorkeling. The hike up the crater was not too bad, but the view on the top is absolutely spectacular. We can see the pennisula of Bartolome island with yellow sand beach on either side of the narrow land ...

... to find the way in which you yourself
have altered. -Nelson MandelaI like noticing the little things that haven´t changed, and the ones that have. And especially the things that I hardly noticed 2 years ago and now being back realize how much I liked them, such as...
-mentholated caramelos (Jaazz especially)
-chifles
-choclo con queso (corn on the cob with a slab of salty mozzarella cheese, best when bought on a long distance bus) <actually i always new i loved ...

... that I didn't already know, such as details of when several thousand Norwegians came to inhabit the island and set up various fishing enterprises. They failed.

The next day dawned with more rain. This was beginning to be rather depressing. After a wasted hour on the internet I had had enough of sitting around doing nothing and, damn it, I would go on the walk and get wet anyway. It turned out to be a good decision as about 20 minutes later the skies had cleared and the sun was ...

... expectations of the diving, especially the first day at a famous sight called Gordon Rocks, famed for its schools of hammerhead sharks. Due to the change in season though, the cold currents were coming in, which while it brings in nutrients for the fish and so they are there in greater numbers, it also makes the water colder and visibility a bit poorer. Still we did see hammerheads and reef sharks which was pretty cool. It was the ...

... imagining some person accidentally coming upon them as they leisurely swam the calm little channel. When we got back to our kayaks the tide had begun to come in and we went to the mouth of the canal, the same canal entrance the sharks would exit from, to snorkel. The water had become really murky though as the tide brought in big waves and it was difficult to see a whole lot. Gabe had begun to feel sea ...

... entry point to the Islands, we took a small boat and bus to the town of Puerto Ayara (the biggest town in the Galapagos) on the island of Santa Cruz where we were to join the mighty GAP III - our home for the next 3 nights. Driving through the island we experienced a little of our first impressions of the Galapagos: lush green, semi-forests of bright green vegetation. As we drew near to Puerto Ayara it began to rain...so much for the good weather.
Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador lyndsaygillot

... schon zum Ti**narr dort w**den. Es macht einfach
Spass sie zu beobachten.
Auss**dem waren die Leute auf dem Boot sehr nett und es passte recht gut fu** die Woche.
Gest**n
morgen war dann mein letzt** Inselbesuch b**eits um sechs Uhr morgens
und danach ging es zurueck nach Pu**to Ayora und zum Flughafen. Nach
dem Flug direkt zum Busbahnhof und nochmal vi** Stunden Richtung
Suedost und nun bin ich in Cuenca, ein** Kolonialstadt, die Unesco
WEltkultur**be ist.

... quite simply indescribable, much better than any documentary, holiday story and certainly a second rate blog can explain!

The Galapagos is unique, in geographical terms, in geological terms and in natural history terms. These islands some 1000KM of the Ecuadorian coast, sit directly on the equator in the middle of 4 major ocean currents. The islands occupy a ‘hot spot’ which means new islands are created due to ...

... a ship called "Galaxy". We ferried and drove to Santa Cruz island, whereby after a seafood lunch we began a tour of a turtle sanctuary. We saw some very large tortoises, which were also very slow. It was easy to get close to them, and wondrous to see them go about their routines of eating, sleeping, cooling off in lakes, etc. A visit to a lava tube came next, and then we headed to Puerto Ayora to board the Galaxy, taking pangas (dingy motor boats) to get there.
Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador atullgupta