Galapagos with Mamacita

MamaDeCou and I did up the Galapagos and it was great. We were lucky in almost every way...my fears of a boat of old people for 8 days were not realized. There were 6 of us 26 year olds. There was even another American mother daughter pair of almost our identical ages. Mamacita also had her fair share of 'wiser' folks to hang with. Altogether a fun and interesting group of English, Dutch, Italian, American and Danish. Other than the day we almost lost a Danish girl during a snorkeling outing (no joke), the trip was just fun and easygoing. The crew on the boat were lots of fun and the food was even good. I experienced a couple bouts of seasickness but was able to recover pretty quickly.

We saw lots of pre-historic looking animals that look like direct descendants of dinosaurs. There were sea lions EVERYWHERE...even playing with us as we swam and snorkeled in the crystal clear refreshing water. We had lots of sun and a little bit of rain to cool us off, but I had plenty of sun to work on my tan.

On to the pics...better from the bottom up

The volcano on the way back to Banos


Apparently they developed ETs face from these large land turtles


Mamacita enjoying the Panga ride


Flamingos too...but the marsh was kinda smelly


Our kind of Titanic moment


See I wasn't lying about the gorgeous water...


Sea lions enjoying the view


Yup those are bright blue feet...blue footed booby (no I did not make that name up)


Sea turtles..my favorites!


Happy couple picture


Sea lions showing off


This guy was one of the cooler looking iguanas..there were many to pick from


Frigget bird looking for a ladyfriend


The not very well camoflaged crabs on the islands


La Floreana...the lovely boat we stayed on