Galapagos Part 2

Well we promised you Galapagos 2 - the sequel - and here it is. Everybody has probably heard of Lonesome George, the last living Pinto tortoise. We called along the Charles Darwin Centre where he lives but he appeared to be out (or more likely sleeping indoors) but we did meet a few of his cousins from other islands. This fellow is about 5 feet long.

Probably the most amazing thing about Galapagos is how close you can get to the wildlife without disturbing them. This is a Galapagos Hawk and we were about 6 feet away from him and two others when we took this picture.

You must have heard of the blue-footed booby. Actually they are very similar to gannets and fish in the same way, although they don´t go so deep, and we don´t remember any gannets with feet this colour. This one is hatching two eggs, and the chick you can see was hatched while we were there.

Finally just to prove there really was some kayaking involved, here are a couple of our companions with a sealion swimming alongside.