To China Hat
/An early departure for Isla San Salvador and an anchorage called China Hat..I wonder why?
Photo by H Isan
Ahhh Bed Time!
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Photo by Emu
Crossing!
/Nearly There just another 5 minutes...!
Tortoise Crossing
/Where in the world would you see this..!
Photo by Emerson Carloon
Lonesome has Gone.
/The last of the Pinta Tortoise's passed away in 2012 but he is still around in Taxidermy form..
It turned out he was Sterile, sadly.
Porto Ayora for the Day.
/We motored in the early evening across to Santa Cruz to the Roadstead anchorage arriving around 2200.
Next morning we had a very nice trip to the Famed Darwin Center in Pto Ayora and in the afternoon a trip up to the Tortoise Sanctuary in the highlands.
Photo by Ethan Toal
Santa Maria Sunset!
/Lovely Sunset this evening. All are happy and we are off to the big city of Pto Ayora a short 3 hour run. Santa cruz tomorrow for the Darwin Center
Photo by Richard "I fixed it " Smith
Crew Flamingo..Head in the sand!
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Photo by Richard "Take it Apart" Smith
Pink or What.?
/In the afternoon we took the tender a mile away for a nice walk. There were lots of Pink Flamingos, also White chilean ones ..i goes the shrimp they feed on over there are not Pink...
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After a short hike over the small hill to a bay with Everything present..Iguanas (not the crew type) Rays, Sealions and Sharks.. Very cool
Photo by Richard "I can Fix that" Smith
Sally Light Foot Crab
/Rocks are full of these guys..Not Edible, unless you are French!
Photo by Hew "go " Thomas
Final Wave!
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Photo by Kate Wyndborne
More of Albert Ross and now Mrs Ross
/The Male Waved Albatross finds and makes the Nest then the female turns up
Photo by Kate Wynborne
Post Office Bay
/These flowers bloom twice for 1 day. !st time bright Yellow and the next day the go Reddy Brown and don't fully open and that is it
Photo by Catherine Carr.
Post Office Bay Santa Maria
/In the olden and even recent times. Boats would come here and fill there water casks/tanks collect a few Turtles and Tortoises and then pick up whatever mail was going there way and deliver it for the Sender.. Still the system works although there is lots more mail...
En route from Espanola to Post Office Bay Santa Maria
/A nice evening for a 50nm sail across. As mentioned the sky was amazing..
Photo by Emerson "did you see that" Carlin
Crew Iguana
/Mark making sure a clean bottom leads to a happy Boat..
Hi, How you doin'?
/A young sea lion at Gardiner Bay.. Wakes up for a minute.. A nice walk on the sandy Beach here and then a snorkel around the rocks with Sea Lions and colorful fish..
Photo by Richard "reboot" Smith
Ig Uana
/Also at Punta Suarez was this guy a Galapagos Red Iguana..
Albert Ross
/A Waved Albtross sits on its Nest. After the young immature birds are kicked out..they fly for over 5 years before returning here to mate.. That is a long flight.
Photo by Markus " floats like a butterfly" Rowell