Today was our full day on Isabella Island. We began our tour at 8 and Andres took us to many places around the south of the Island. We finally saw some flamingos, they were all eating shrimps in a lagoon making some funny noises!

After we went to a giant tortoise reserve and saw many different aged tortoises as well as some mating! It was feeding time and the tortoises were climbing all over each other in order to get to the food. They were a lot more active than any we have seen on other islands and the small ones can actually move quite fast!

We then went back into the truck and Andres took us to where there were lots of cactuses, some of them were about 12ft and they only grow a few mm a year so must be really old! We then saw where the marine iguanas are, some of the males were shaking their heads and apparently this means they were getting ready to fight. Unfortunately we didn't get to see them actually fight! We then went down and saw a lava tunnel this was cool and Andres told us when the tide comes in you can snorkel in it, as it was pitch black inside this sounded quite scary though!

Next we went to see all the mangroves, for this ride Andres let us sit in the back of the truck and told us to bang on the roof if we wanted him to stop! On the way we saw a few tortoises just chilling in the road. The mangroves were massive and some of them had formed archways we had to go through. We got to a freshwater stream part which was really secluded and peaceful. Andres drank some of the water and he asked us if we wanted to but with us all conscious that we didn't want to catch cholera we declined! I did try and pose for a photo pretending to drink it but this lead to me almost falling in as the bank was quite slippery!

Next we went to the 'Wall of Tears', in the 1800's they bought around 300 prisoners to the island and made them build a wall as a punishment. The strong ones cried and the weak ones died! The wall was really big and you used to be able walk across is but a bit in be centre has now collapsed and so it is forbidden. The final part of our morning was climbing up to a viewing point, there were lots of steps and once we got to the top you could see all over the south of the island and the places we had visited. We then returned back to the hostel for a rest before our trip in the afternoon.

On our way to our snorkelling trip we stopped to grab lunch and I ordered a hot dog. Unfortunately for me they had smothered it in ketchup, I managed to clean the ketchup off the sausage but couldn't salvage the bun so ended up with just a frankfurter type sausage for lunch.

We then went on our trip to Tortuga Island. Before leaving we had to pick up our wetsuits and Browny managed to get stuck in one which was too small for her and had to be pulled out by the guide and Kat! The boat was quite rocky and by the time we arrived I wasn't feeling too great and was glad to be getting in the water. The water was really choppy and at first it was a bit overwhelming snorkelling in such an open part of the sea. Kat found it a bit much and decided to go back to the boat but Nathan, Browny and I carried on. We had been told there were hammerhead sharks in the area but unfortunately we didn't see any, however we did manage to see quite a few sea lions playing near to us. They look a lot more graceful in the water than on land!

We then got back on the boat ready to return to Isabella, Kat and I went to the top of the boat to sit with the driver - here she noticed how I had loads of bits from the sea in my which was quite gross but she thought was hilarioa! As I was still in my wetsuit the driver went downstairs so I could change and told Kat to look for bubbles where the divers would be coming up from. I got stuck in my wetsuit and kept telling Kat I was stuck but she was too busy looking for bubbles to care! When she did turn around she realised I was actually stuck as Browny had been and attempted to pull me out while we were both flying all over the place on the rocky boat! On the journey the driver let us both have a go at driving the boat, we had to use the compass to keep the boat going towards 280 degrees which was harder than it looked! He told us it was just like driving a car but we soon realised any slight turn of the wheel had a much bigger effect than it would do in a car! We managed to get us back to Isabella and on our way into the harbour saw the boat we had stayed on for our cruise.

We then had dinner at a place called Red Lobster which was nice (and cheap! Just $5 each for starter and main!), ironically we all had chicken, then after a short wander around the town headed for bed before our 5:15am wake up to get the boat back to Puerto Ayora!