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Santa Cruz Island At the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island is a giant tortoise breeding center. They breed each of the species found on the islands and release them in to the wild. Lonesome George is the last known member of the Geochelone...
We arrived on Floreana with a wet landing on a darky sandy beach. Close inspection of the "sand" showed that it wasn't sand as we'd know it, but volcanic ash and a variety of different coloured stones. Pausing only to put our shoes on...
After what felt like a long night on the boat we arrived at Espanola Island. The boat hadn't set sail until midnight; the sound of the engines starting up woke me from my bunk at the top of the boat and once we started moving the up and down motion...
Getting to the Galapagos Islands was harder that I expected. First an overnight flight on an aging Delta 757 to Atlanta on which I got little to no sleep, what little I got was interrupted by the child next to me poking me with his elbow and then falling...
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