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Casa Del Lago Santa Cruz

Moise Brito y Juan Montalvo Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

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Shark Encounter!

A travel blog entry by maz360

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... br> But seeing the sharks wasn't enough, I wanted to swim with them. I had set my sights on going to 'Los Tuneles', a place where apparently you are pretty much guaranteed to see white-tip sharks. But each day we asked (at every travel shop in town) we were told there was either no boat going out or it was full. In the end I stayed an extra day on Isabela on the hope that a trip would eventually run and if it did I was determined that I would be on it - I had every man and ...

Day 18 – Swimming with Turtles part 2

A travel blog entry by saseau

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... tried obtained a better snorkel, but my mask leaked like a sieve. After switching with one of the Germans, we were finally on our way. First stop, to the turtle that we spotted.

Rounding a rock pile, we came face to face with a sea turtle that was grabbing a quick snack. Again, the turtle could not have cared less that a bunch of floating tourists were now flocked around him, watching him eat. We made all attempts to respect its space, and ...

Day 16 – Landlubber’s adventure

A travel blog entry by saseau

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... of breeding centers like this that the tortoise population is increasing.

There are a series of half a dozen pens with increasingly different ages of tortoises in them. In total, the hatchery raises about one hundred tortoises, and they all have their own personality. We watch them lounge around, ********* (not on purpose), get hung up on big rocks, get stuck in the brush and fight, as there is definitely a pecking order among tortoises. What comes across most is ...

Cruising Through the Enchantered Galapagos Islands

A travel blog entry by adechevron

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... flow and the local population have increased in recent years and will continue to increase, this unique situation is deteriorating, according to the locals I talked to, so hurry up if you want to visit the islands too!!!

Some info about the islands:
The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in ...

Goodbye Panama hello Galapagos

A travel blog entry by sharkita

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... frequency output that attracted them. At night we were also getting large amounts of small flying landing on the deck, other than the amount, that’s not particularly unusual, however there was also lots of small squid, how they managed to get up on deck we just couldn’t fathom! We caught quite a few Skipjack tuna and a lovely mackerel along the way, they were really tasty and we always seemed to have ...

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