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...

15th June 2013 - started early this morning heading into town to see if the tourist info office was open to get info on a couple places I was interested in seeing today... It was closed but found a guy trying to sell me a tour and he should me how to walk to La loberia beach and that is where I sit now... On black volcanic rocks as the salt water breeze hits me and I look out at all there is too take in. To one side of me I have a colony of sea lions just lazy ar...

14th June 2013 - up early to get a taxi to the airport. Left the hostel at 6:15am as reception said it would probably take an hour and half to get to the airport... 45 minutes later I was at the airport... I guess it don't hurt to be early but a little more sleep would have been nice. Got my tourists transit card and then had my bags scanned for the Galapagos customs to ensure i didn't bring any foreign bugs into the islands. They were fairly relaxed about it com...