Iḿ in Quito again now and have a spare 10 mins before i meet a friend for dinner so thought I´d do a quick blog (i have a dodgy keyboard so my spelling may appear even worse than usual!) I can really notice the altitude here again as Iḿ short of breath just walking down the street! Iḿ staying in a hotel in mariscal that ,y forends in San Cristobal booked for me. It has heavy security gates, hot water and ....a duvet!!!!!!!! heaven! So Iĺl go back to la...

Hello, So I´ve caught you up with what I´ve been doing up to the end of the 4 day tour (sunday 30th Nov) so now I have a week to fill you in on.. Monday 1st December As far as I´m concerned this is the earliest time Christmas decorations can go up, although they have been up in port for ages. It is very strange to see all of the plastic christmas trees up in the sunshine. There are no decorations up yet in the station, except for a countdown to Christmas ...

ello again, I feel well and truly back in the land of communication now. Although i miss everyone from the station is kind of nice to get back in touch with the outside world. So now I´m going to fill you in on what else I've been up to apart from the tours.Monday 24th - Wednesday 26th NovemberThese were the 3 days before the 4 day tour at the station. Monday and Tuesday at work were pretty normal days of machetting. On Tuesday afternoon we picked wild coffee (n...

Hello, I feel like I´ve been out of communication for ages and so much has happened. I´ve now finished my volunteering at Jatun Sacha. The experience has been amazing and I consider myself to be a fully fledged machete girl. I left the camp on Friday and have spent the weekend in port with the other volunteers. They went back to the highlands last night so now I´m on the own for the first time in 5 weeks.. it feels strange. I´ve been sharing a room since ...

Helllooooo, I´m going to skip straight to the esciting stuff while the connection is good and then fill you in on the rest if it keeps going. I´ve just got back from an amazing snorkelling trip. It is the first time i have gone orkelling properlly and i can´t believe what we saw. First of all our boat stopped of at Lobo Island where the water is pretty shallow and calm. To start off with i only saw small fish but then spotted a Manta Ray. It was lying on t...