We had a good nights sleep last night ready for the last full day of the cruise. After another good breakfast we went for a walk along Sombrero Chino, we saw some tiny baby sealions (which we decided sounded like goats), iguanas swimming around and loads of small lava lizards and Sally Lightfoot Crabs in the rock pools. We felt very sorry for one poor sealion pup which looked malnourished and left on its own however they don't rescue animals on the Galápagos, ju...

7am wakeup followed by pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast! There was also a generous selection of fruit, bread ham and cheese and Guayabana Fruit juice which Nathan isn't keen on. Our dingy boat almost would start so we had to wait a little while for the engineer to help fix it. We headed to Sullivan bay and walked along lava rocks for about an hour. The last eruption was 100 years ago and it was interesting to see all the different patterns and shapes which ...

The 21st was spent on Genovesa Island between Darwin bay and El Barranco. For breakfast we were served a generous helping of bread, cheese, ham, scrambled eggs and fruit. We then took the dingy boat (Zodiac) to lava rocks to see a variety of birds and gulls. It was a 2 hour walk with blistering sun. We took 100s of pictures of the birds and saw babies - which are really cute white fluffy - some blue footed boobies and an owl. Browny had fun searching the rock poo...

After a very long sleep and lie-in (we had to be at Joybe Tours for 10am) we all woke up a little rosy from the day before and started packing for the cruise. We had a continental breakfast before leaving to visit Santa Rosa, a town in the centre if Santa Cruz with a tortoise sanctuary. We walked past loads of different sized tortoises, the heaviest were around 200 kilos and the oldest 120 years. The males are bigger in general and the youngest one we saw was 15 ...

We had another early start today (6.40am) for a day trip to San Christóbal island. We got a quick breakfast (bread and marmalade) from a cafe before heading to the pier to meet our guide. There was about 16 of us on the boat, the guide told us there were four seats at the top so Browny and I headed up there thinking Eddy and Nathan would follow. Unfortunately another couple grabbed the places (these turned out to be the most annoying couple on the trip, we could...