22nd June 2013 - we sailed through the night around the Northern tip of isabella island. breakfast at 6am this morning. We then went to puerto egas on Santiago island. We took the dingy too the beach and then waded onto the shore. It was a black beach due to the volanic sand. We walked along and found a coloney of Galapagos fur seals. They are only found in small numbers and are larger with a lesser ability to use there fins when compared to the sea lions. We als...

20th June 2013- it was a very long rough night sailing. Was grateful when we finally put anchor down around 3:30am. Was up at 6am as we took a dingy ride looking at the cormorant bird nesting and taking the seaweed up to feed and use for nest building. Back on board by 7am for pancake breakfast. At 8am we went onto Isabella island at punta Moreno to walk around the very edge of the lava flows from Sierra Negra volunco. We saw the different types of cactus and dif...

18th June 2013 - spent the night in port so slept well combined with been so tired after such a busy day out and about yesterday. Breakfast at 7am and then at 8am we took the dingy onto the island of Santa Cruz and visited the Charles Darwin research station. Here they have serval breeding programs for the land tortoises. This was also the home of lonesome George before he died in 2012. They breed and raise hundreds of animals a year with the aim of releasing th...

17th June - woke early after having a very ordinary sleep inboard. Am not uses to the motion or noise of the boat so woke up serval time. We sailed from San Cristobal Island to San Cruz island overnight. Breakfast at 8:30 and then we made a dry landing on north plaza island. This was a very small island only a couple of square kilometers and we were able to walk around outside of most of the island. Walking from the dingy up the small Pier had to shoo sea lions o...

16th June 2013- was up early to make the most of the wifi before heading off to spend the next 8 days sailing around the Galapagos islands. I am so excited can't believe I am actually here, I have to keep pinching myself the scenery and animals are like nothing else. Walked to the airport and meet with the guide from the boat at 10am we then had to wait for the rest of the passengers to arrive on flights from the mainland. It was noon before we boarded a dingy a...