Up at 5:00 – for the last time. On the panga and off to Isla Lobos to look at over a hundred baby sea lions, and boobies and more frigate birds. Back onto the boat and off to […]
Jan 22 Espanola – Last full day
O man what a night! Not a good one! The ship tossed and rolled and tossed again. Up at 5:00. Breakfast at 5:45 and most of the group was on the pangas and away at 6:30. 5 of […]
Jan 21 – Postoffice Bay
Up at 5:30, some vacation, no sleeping in. A couple of wet landings, some snorkelling, kayaking and hill climbing. O goody, where’s the laying on the beach doing nothing part?? Well we got the beach part this morning. […]
Jan 20 – Civilization – Santa Cruz Island
We are here for the day. Going to the Darwin Research Station. Turtles in the wild. And shopping!! And hopefully a internet to upload the past 8 or so days of the blog. Didn’t find any internet and […]
Jan 19 long overnight to Florena Island
We ran all night through the dark. Up and down and an occasional side to side. I took some gravol. Ended up in a port. First civilization we have seen in a week. Most everyone had weird dreams […]
Jan 18 – Down to the tummy of the seahorse – Elizabeth Bay – Isabella Island
Awake at 5:00. They started the engines and away we go. Off to Elizabeth Bay on Isabella. We took a detour to run with the dolphins. They swam at the prow of the boat, jumping all around us. […]
Jan 17 off to visit Fernandina
Up at 5:30 and breakfast at 6:00 and on the panga to shore at 6:30. Fast early morning. We had another wet landing because the dry landing site didn’t have enough water – tide wasn’t in enough. Wow […]
Jan 16 – turtle porn – Isabella Island
We started at 6:30 with a panga ride to a little bay to look at flightless cormorants. There was a seal in the bay as well. On the way back to the boat we saw two turtles making […]