Saturday, April 26, 2014

Galapagos Islands - Island Isabela

     




  We were told when trying to choose the different islands to cruise to, that this was a must do, so we had high expectations on our 2 day, 1 night tour.  We arrived, and went to this lake area where there were tons of beautiful bright pink flamingos, then we went to another turtle breeding center.


lava tunnels
       
seahorse 
         Later in the day we rented bikes, and biked about 3 hours around the hilly, sandy, rough terrain, to some great lookout points, and to the wall of tears, which was a wall made by prisoners "just because."  We also did some snorkeling later.
wall of tears
         The next morning we headed out on the boat bright and early for our tunnels tour.  We had to surf in on our boat these massive waves to the calmer part of a coral reef, which was breathtaking.  We got to sit on the top of the boat as we passed by iguanas, blue boobies, and large lava tunnels.  We then got in to snorkel with penguins, seahorses, giant turtles, puffer fish, giant lobster, octopus, white tip sharks, many beautiful fish, and we even saw some manta rays from our boat.  It was an amazing experience.

penguin

sharks

my turtle friend



puffer fish




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