Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos was an amazing experience. I had the opportunity to see animals that are only found one place in the world. We saw iguanas that swim in the sea, Darwin's finches, land iguanas, seals that were days old, albatroses, tons of boobies. :) yes boobies; red footed boobies, masked boobies and blue footed boobies. There were owls , hawks, lava lizards and penguins. We snorkeled once or twice a day swimming with sea turtles, beautiful fish and seals that swam and played along with us.
I took over 1000 photos in the Galapagos and so many wonderful things happened I don't think I can write about them all. So here are just a few photos.

September 3rd - Fly into Baltra Island

and ferry over to Santa Cruz Island










September 4th - Rabida & Bartolome Island

Rabida Island











Bartolome Island














September 5th - Genovesa Island














September 6th North Seymour Island

















September 7th - Plazas and Santa Fe

















September 8th - EspaƱola Island
Garner Bay and Point Suarez





















September 9th - Floreana Island




September 10th - Santa Cruz Island
The Tortoise Research Center.
Those tiny tortoises grow up to be huge. The tortoise sticking his neck out is Lonely George, the last of his kind.