From San Cristobal we motored, nursing a failing water pump on the engine, to Santa Cruz, the main centre in the islands. Here we have divided our time between walking to local beaches across arid, cactus strewn landscapes and trying to arrange for the shipment and fitting of water pump parts. We’ve also seen tortoises in the wild here and been underground in lava tubes, tunnels formed by lava from the volcanoes that have formed these islands. From here we move to the very tranquil island of Isabela. Here, whilst not helping boats that have dragged onto the beach, we took a horseback trip up a volcano that erupted in the late 70’s to see tremendous lavascapes and more locally to the anchorage we saw the endemic penguins and some white-tip sharks. Isabela was a beautiful, peaceful place from which to prepare for our Pacific crossing, but we left the Galapagos with very happy memories of these very special wildlife-rich islands.
Date(s): May 2007. Album by Gerard Coulson. Photos by Gerard Coulson. 1 - 57 of 57 Total. 14273 Visits.
1 Isabela
2 A Galapagoes penguin swims by!
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4 Galapagos 2 08
5 Myrdinn
6 Penguins haul-out
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9 Galapagos 2 15
10 We go ashore to walk a trail
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13 Walking on the lava - it's razor sharp and hell on feet and shoes
14 A unique scape
15 Marine Iguanas, not very shy
16 Eric and Jenitya look at the sharks in the lagoon
17 A white-tip reef shark
18 Galapagos 2 40
19 A Sally-Ligtfoot crab, they jump!
20 Sealions asleep on the beach
21 Merlijn carries Rebecca
22 Galapagos 2 54
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24 A bull sealion lords it over the beach
25 Galapagos 2 60
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27 Big fatties!
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30 Ernst, Merlijn and Trstan from the back!
31 The kids and Merlijn
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35 On Isla Isabela
36 Good friends
37 We go ashore for lunch
38 Flamingos spotted
39 Galapagos 2 05
40 A baby giant tortoise!
41 Galapagos 2 07 1
42 It leaked!
43 Jonty having a run
44 Monca and Beccy on horseback as we go up a volcano, Sierra Negra
45 Our group
46 Lots of kids!
47 The side of the volcano
48 The boys crawl through a lava tube
49 Looking over the volcano to the other side of the island
