Rather than describe how wonderful this place was I decided to do it David Attenborough stylee and make some videos...
But some highlights in brief:
* Walking to the beautiful Tortuga bay on Santa Cruz and discovering that marine iguanas come in large too. A real live dinosaur just slithering and grunting down the beach.
* Minutes later walking around a cliff to see my first booby (blue) just sitting there looking at me. Even at a meter away he didn't budge.
* Arriving in Isabella harbour to see penguins, Manta rays and white tipped sharks just swimming around the boats in crystal clear waters.
* Snorkelling in a lagoon on Isabella and meeting a lone seal. Extremely playful we swam abou together for ages before he picked up a seashell from the sea bed, swam up to the surface and let it drop. It took me a while to get what he was doing but it was nothing more than a game of fetch. I would swim down and get the shell and drop it for him, where he would catch it just before it reached the bottom.
* The omnipresence of seals on San Cristobal. Having to tip toe over a beach filled with seals to get home at night was always fun.
* The beaches of Isabela - just gorgeous.
* Meeting a real live giant[ish] tortoise on Isabela just walking down the road.
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