Date 4/8/2010 Location: Santa Cruz Today was our last full day on the Galapagos archipelago. We spent the morning waking to the beautiful black sand beach on Floreana and took the boat to see more other worldly bird species and had our final snorkel session. This afternoon we visited the Charles Darwin Research Center to get a close up glimpse of the famous Galapagos tortoise, Lonesome George, the last of his kind. Tonight we will go to bed sun kissed and ready to tell our tales of

DATE:  April 7th, Wed

LOCATION:  Floreana Island

Alice takes Mt Mike under the volcano in a lava tube.  We were out of the sun here.

Up in the morning bright and early!  We went to see the Wall of Tears.  It is a left as a monument to the prisoners who were on the island after the second world war.  Treatment was so bad, there was an uprising and the guards were overwhelmed and the manager murdered.  Today, no such murder.  We rode in the bo

Date: April 6th Location: Sierra Negra Volcanoe, Isabella Island. Ride 'em cowboy! Mary Jo here. On top my bronc. We rode through the fog and rain to the crater rim. It was very muddy. Especially in the way down as the horses were slipping all over the place. We then hiked to the side of a the steaming volcano. We were just under the clouds, and could see where within the last 5 years the volcano had over flowed with hot lava. It was a bizarre landscape of tortured, flowing

Date: 4/5/10 Location: Isabela Island, Galapagos After a bit of a rough boat ride this morning we made it to our beautiful hotel which sits 100 yards from the water. The clouds parted in the afternoon in time for us to go see lots of marine iguanas and penguins. Yes, penguins at the equator. We had another great snorkel trip full of octopus, manta rays, and sea cucumbers and then we headed back to relax and have dinner at this amazing hotel. Rick shows you a marine iguana.