Hotel Red Booby Puerto Ayora

... waarbij ik echt dacht daar valt nog wat van te maken maar ja zo gaat dat hier en ik ben ook geen expert natuurlijk. Maar goed de katjes; ik was natuurlijk helemaal verkocht. Ik was ook echt bang dat ze geen nieuw huis zouden krijgen...En toen kwam ik gelukkiger wijze met een engelse galery houdster in gesprek, die al 18 jaar op de Galapagos eilanden woont. Zij is ook erg begaan met het lot van de geintroduceerde dieren (zoals ze hier bestempeld worden). Zij ...

... Santa Cruz Island where water is calm. Thank goodness. We visited the Charles Darwin Reaserch station and saw the breeding area for young land tortoise. Due to introduced species such as feral rats, goats, cats, dogs, the survivial rate for the tortoise in the wild is slim to none, so the National park rangers collected the eggs and places a bunch of tortoise in captivity to allow safe breeding and hatching of the young tortoise. Until the ...

... uncomfortable. I think that, to compensate for leaving late, the driver decided to go full throttle, no mercy into the waves which meant the ride was extremely bumpy... slipped discs all round. After about an hour the guy almost opposite me woke up from his slumber with... a relfex vomit! EVERYWHERE! Fortunately it stopped about a foot away from me but the smell was revolting and the people next to him were less than impressed with being covered in sick. Myself and the guy next to me were ...

... a serious rip and our Lonely Planet advised not to swim in this bay, but there were two locals dragged from the sea after getting caught up in it. Both were given CPR, but unfortunately one didn´t make it - goes to show how easy something like that can happen if you don´t get the lowdown first.

We also went to the Charles Darwin Research Station where you can see them breeding each variety, from tiny babies to the Giants ...

... moves to get off. Eventually we made our way out and had the chance to look around and really appreciate our surroundings. We had paddled our way to another little cove and there were blue footed boobies making dives, old fishing boats, green mangrove surrounded the cove, and sea lions swimming around our kayaks. We paddled near the mangroves and Sebastian pointed out various types of birds and iguanas ...

... is set up for westerners with money. Amazing birds flying overhead and bombing the water for fish. The boat looks better in the photos but it is pretty good - you develop a bit of envy - i know how much we paid for our boat - others must have paid a small fortune for theirs. We also have some camera envy - you should see the machines these people carry - they spend more time looking at a screen and less looking at the real wildlife - ill get some postcards and be happy.

... dass sie nie negative Erfahrungen gemacht
haben, sind sie absolut furchtlos. Die Regel ist, mindestens zwei Met**
zu den Ti**en zu halten - und dies ist manchmal wirklich schwi**ig,
denn die Ti**e sind neugi**ig und kommen zu einem, d.h. man selb** muss
weggehen. Anfassen ist natu**lich v**boten. Ab** es ist so suess, wenn
die Seelowen auf einen zukommen...Seelowen sind die faulsten Ti**e, die
ich je gesehen habe. Am liebsten liegen sie rum, schlafen und sonnen ...

... we were lucky enough to see all manner of birds, mammals and reptiles. Our favourites were the Blue Footed Boobies, whether flying high and then plummeting like a dart in to the water catching fish or waddling duck like on land and stamping their bright blue feet and raising their wings during their comical courtship dance. The marine iguanas were great to watch as well - black with bright red patches, originally land dwelling ...