A stroll through the town, along a sandy path and across a lagoon in the morning gave us encounters with birds called stilts, ducks swimming on orange water and iguanas who like to sunbathe on the wooden walkway. Sometimes you’re lucky to see flocks of pink flamingoes on the lagoon…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
lava is all around
/ 17/05/2013Sierra Negra volcano at the bottom right side of Isla Isabella is the second largest crater in the world, the caldera is 9x11km. We set off for an 18km hike around the right hand side taking in views over the immense expanse of the caldera. I felt quite incapable of…
black sand beach with a dark history
/ 17/05/2013Floreana Island is famous for a black sand beach and a dark human history. A couple of hippies – the Wittmer’s – indirectly managed to entice a self-proclaimed Baroness and her two lovers to find their way there and so ensued a bizarre chain of events which now have a…
catchin’ some rays…spotted eagle rays
/ 17/05/2013Breakfast is one of my favourite meals of the day. Especially so when it’s eggs, bread, copious amounts of tea and coffee and all served looking over the water with great company. Following a good breakfast with a wriggly wetsuit fitting is probably less on my list of favourite things…
big tick on the bucket list
/ 17/05/2013One of the criteria I used to start shaping my bucket list was the four elements – earth, air, fire and water. I’ve hiked on glaciers for the water element, looked into the mouth of the vocal and fiery Mt Yasur volcano for fire, air I plan to cover with…