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...

Ahhhhhh - getting onto the internet today has been a mission!!!!!! I want to scream... but then i remember where I am and it is all ok again. No photos are possible today because this computer is terrible. The station I am at is very ´rustic´! Our bedrooms have a roof but are open to the elements and the bugs. I´ve seen some enormous spiders and moths and cockroaches and suprisingly I´m not too scared. I got here on sunday and was picked up at the airport b...

On sunday I flew from Quito to the Galapagos. I met another girl from London (also 27) called Katherine (yet another Katherine/Catherine in my life!!!!) who came to the Galapagos project on the same day. We´re sharing a room and generally have a laugh... what a nice coincidence! We were picked up at the airport on San Cristobal by a member of the project staff. THe project is called Jatun Sacha and the purpose of the project is to protect endemic species. What ...