Another travel day.... We woke up late...7am :) We were determined to have a pretty cruisy day today so refused to get out of bed until 9am. Met some ladies at breakfast going on a similar to cruise to ours (and were a little bit glad that they weren't on ours as a couple of them spent breakfast complaining about everything!) and then headed out to wander the streets of Quito. It is a beautiful city - not only the Old Town we saw the other night, but also parts...

Up early yet again (5:45am!) with breakfast at 6am and off the boat at 6:30am. There were three sharks off the back of the boat this morning, about a metre or so long, just playing in the water. We were anchored off Santa Cruz Island in order to visit the Charles Darwin Research Station before our departure. It was quite sad saying goodbye to the crew of the boat as we'd been treated so well during our short stay with them - it really was like you were visiting l...

Well, not feeling too flash turned into a need to take motion sickness medication and hope for the best...woke up after a long sleep feeling refreshed (and I didn't hear the anchor at all!!). We were off the boat at 7:30am for a dingy ride around Buccaneer Rock. Enrique was in the other dingy to begin with so we were asking our dingy driver (Ornaldo, who spoke a little English) what everything was. He kept saying 'I don't know'. We saw a Blue Footed Boobie nesti...

I just realised I forgot it was April Fools!! Oh well :) After an awful nights sleep, what with the rocking, generator noise and anchor coming up and down, we were up for breakfast at 7am as our first excursion was at 7:30am. During the night, we had travelled round San Cristobal Island to the north side. The dingy's were used to get us ashore (wet landing...and unfortunately wetter for some than others!) and we saw sea lions and marine iguana's right on the bea...

After a false start this morning (I forgot the ipad wouldn't have automatically updated the time change without a wifi connection so we got up at 3:45 instead of 4:45...took me a couple of minutes to realise and then we went back to bed for an hour!), we arose early and had some breakfast before meeting the rest of the group we were to be touring with for a 5:30am pickup. We drove the hour back to the airport to get our flight to San Cristobel Island, the main is...