28th August - 4th September 2008: We head to the airport to transfer onto our cruise ship - The Galapagos Legend! Because our transfer never showed up on our first day we have been upgraded to a superior cabin so we get two huge windows instead of teeny tiny portholes - yay! The ship fits 100 people so is one of the largest sailing around the Galapagos and we will hopefully avoid getting seasick from the rough seas round these parts! We all get on little pangas (...

24th - 27th August 2008: So, after only seven hours away from the airport in Quito we head back there again to catch our flight...to the Galapagos! Needless to say I am very, very excited indeed! Still no news about my missing rucksack but American Airlines promise they will send it out to wherever I am staying, even if that happens to be a ship somewhere in the oceans off the Galapagos! We catch our flight and head to our hotel on Santa Cruz island, which in...