The Galapagos Islands
Trip Start
Sep 23, 2010
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Trip End
Jul 13, 2012
Where I stayed
The Encantada Sail Boat
Rabida, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Monday, February 28, 2011
Copy of 28th Feb.
Got up at the early hour of 6.30am for breakfast at 6.45. From the boat we could see a white tip shark hunting for fish around the hull along with the occasional puffer fish. Over night we'd sailed to Rabida Island where the sands are the colour red. At 7.30 we went in the Zodiac to the beach where we saw marine iguanas, sea lion cubs and crabs running in and out of tiny holes in the sand. We had a walk up a hill to a lookout for a beautiful view of the bay and on the way we saw many lizards (male and female, some copulating and some finding food), caterpillars and a mating pair of grasshoppers. We're beginning to think that the Galapagos is all about sex and food! We also saw some strange disk type cactus, some of which looked like mickey mouse and other heads with big ears, but I found one that looked like a love heart. There were plenty of birds about too, including a Mocking-bird and the Fly-catching Finch which was very inquisitive and wasn't scared to fly close to catch a fly or two.
