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Swimming with Dory and Bruce ... Galapagos Islands
1000km west of Ecuador is the amazing Galapagos Islands where we blew most of our budget on a pretty flash boat and spent 8 days cruising around the islands with 14 other holidayers.
Before we tell you of our adventures, de became Aunt to a bouncing boy, Harley while in the Galapagos (Congratulations Maree and Aaron!).
The Galapagos Islands are volcanic islands and have an abundance of wildlife that can only be found in this area of the world. (Read up on Charles Darwin re theory of evolution)
We did loads of snorkelling and even swam with sharks ... de spotted one on the first day and pointed it out to Nic and then chased after it expecting Nic to be hot on her tail, but when the shark finally outswam de, Nic was no where to be seen and had already swam back to the dinghy and jumped inside! We also swam with beautiful turtles so graceful in the water, penguins scooting by catching fish and sea lions wanting to play with us under the water. We saw octopus and giant sting rays and eagle rays, plenty of fish, and marine iguanas eating algae off the rocks. We spotted a humpback whale with her baby calf, scores of pilot whales and dolphins. The animals were no more afraid of us as we were of them, which allowed us to get really close to them ... even the birds (check out the photo´s & video´s).
There were colonies of "loser male" sea lions where the male sea lions went if they lost a fight with another male for a beach front location to hang out. In these "loser" colonies the males would workout for 5 months and then go back and fight for the right to have a beach front position and all the female sealions he could ever dream of, as there was only ever room for one male on each section of beach!
The Galapagos was definitely an amazing place ... whenever you felt like you hadn´t seen anything amazing in a while a turtle would float by or hundreds of birds would do a fly by or a baby sealion wanted to play.
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