We were expected at breakfast at just 6am in order to see the animals during their active time on Seymour Island. The island itself was quite barren, dark brown sand and quite bare trees. All the better for spotting the animals though! Right from when we first disembarked on the island we could see bright crabs and little black crabs on the rocks. Gulls were also building nests in the rocks - no need to hide without predators. A few steps further a sea lion was s...

After lunch we took the dinghy accords to Santa Cruz Island (one of the biggest with the main town). On Baches Beach we saw piles of brightly coloured crabs, a brown pelican and a blue footed boobie on the rocks. Around in the next bay in shallow water a marine iguana was feasting on the algae on the rocks. Massive black frigate birds were flying over head and a little bird, yellow warbler was jumping around at our feet. In the distance we could see a sea lion pl...

We flew to Galápagos Islands early in the morning via Guayaquil and landing in the airport on Baltra Island. The flight attendant missed our row serving drinks so we requested water while the plane stopped in Guayaquil to still not receive it - not sure what we had done to be on the wrong side of the flight attendants! The Galápagos Islands/National Park is very protected, the hand luggage in the plane was sprayed before landing and sniffer dogs walked over all...

In the afternoon we bid goodbye to Colombia (a weird feeling after 3 weeks there) and flew with Tame to Quito, Ecuador. Somehow we managed to get upgraded to premium economy with a row to ourselves on the airplane :). The views flying into Quito were stunning, seeing the surrounding mountains poking out from the clouds and a colourful sunset over the hills coming into a turbulent landing. We had a quick stopover at a place near the airport, unfortunately not gett...