Day 4 was back to santa cruz for the giant tortoise. when we were here before we only saw the tortoises in the research centre but this time we got to see them in the wild. i was taking a picture of one looking thorough my camera and all of a sudden my camera wouldn´t focus, i took the camera down and nearly fell over backwards because the tortoise had gotten so close!! it really didn´t care that i was there it just kept on walking past, it was j...

Day 3 and we were on floriana looking for flamingos and a visit to post office bay.again the guides delivered. we saw flamingos, sting rays in the shallws of the water, penguins, sharks and again plenty of sea lions. the post office bay was quite good, tourists post their post cards here and then other tourist who visit post office bay look to see if any live close to where they do and they deliver it by hand. dee has 3 post cards to deliver in dublinwhich is abo...

Day 2  was the island of espanola and the waved albatross. needless to say we got close enough to ride on the backs of these birds and they just really didn´t care that we were there. we also saw masked boobies, blue footed boobies, marine iguanas, and plenty of sea lions.

I could go on for a month of sundays explaining the islands but i´m sure you want to read about them as much as i want to write about them so i´ll just do a brief description of what went on. i just wanted to show our path around the islands with this new map this site has got. Day 1 of the cruise was mostly getting to know the boat and the rules of the islands. first impressions of the boat was oh dear god what have we gotten our selves into her...

This is what we came away for!!!i really didn`t take me long to fall madly and deeply in love with these islands, and after not sitting on a beach for about 4 months this was a welcome sight. the first day here and we already changed our flights out. we wanted to do the galapagos properly. we walked into a travel agents on the first day asking for the time and before we left we had booked our place on a first class 8 day cruise around the islands!!! it cost an ar...