Early start from Quito with a smooth flight to Baltra. A bus, then a short ferry ride across to Santa Cruz Island. Another bus, this time for 45 mins through another downpour until we reached our ship for the week; Coral 1. A nice welcome lunch followed by orientation and a safety drill- Whoops, we missed the drill. Not sure how that happened but they didn't miss us so I guess we are OK, just hope we don't have any real emergencies.
Next we were off to the Darwin Research Center to learn all about the Galapagos giant tortoises and see some of them close up as well as our first look at an iguana. Learning about the breeding program and seeing them was cool. It's hard to imagine how big they really are - just amazing and there are unique species for each island. Evolution in real life.
Guess what happened on the walk back- yup; more rain. It took a while to dry off for dinner but no worries. Met a couple from Oxford (Jill and Richard) and then had dinner with the pair of ladies from SoCal we had met at our hotel. Looks like early to bed as we have a 7am call for our upcoming day at Island Espanola including our first snorkel after lunch.
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