Our final day on Isla Isabella started with a kayak trip around the bay and marina area. Marie and Karin were the ceremonial dunking sacrifices, Marie even went the extra mile and fell in twice. The water was brilliantly clear, that gorgeous aqua colour favoured by tourism brochures targeted at…
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tortoises, iguanas and sharks, oh my!
/ 17/05/2013A 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…
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…