Galapagos

We've just finished our fantastic trip to the Galapagos islands. We were on 2 different boats (including the picture above) for a total of 8 days. The scenery was amazing, the animals unbelievable! We've done lots of hiking (encountering iguanas, sea-lions, tortoises and many exotic birds), snorkeling (swimming with sea-lions, turtles and small sharks), eating and
sleeping.

Highlights included seeing killer whales swimming around our boat and a school of dolphins following into harbour. Swimming with penguins was Lesley´s personal highlight, but not sure that they were terribly impressed.

We were living in close quarters with passengers and crew but were lucky to have a good experience with both, although the guide on the first boat was a bit of a character (especially when parading along the beaches in his blue speedos).

Birds, animals and fish on the Galapagos are completely non-plussed about humans and just get along with their lives without bothering to hide or fly away. We should have some amazing photos of baby boobies (birds!), and albatross mating dance, giant land tortoises, land iguanas, marine iguanas and thousands of sea lions. Sea lions were everywhere and very playful. Unfortuately I was laughing too hard to get a shot of a baby sea lion trying to play with an iguana tail....it would have been a good one.