After five years in Ecuador (and a little last minute begging) I found that there were a few spaces left on the TROPICAL BIRDING GALAPAGOS ENDEMICS CRUISE, (guided by Andres Vasquez) and swiftly pulled some strings and got myself on board for my very first adventure to the Galapagos. These islands are famed for being the spark for Charles Darwin's theories of evolution by natural selection. This came about from his observations of the many confusing finches on the islands...
We landed on the island of Baltra, nearly tripped over some Land Iguanas basking by the dock, (photo), picked up our first endemic-Galapagos Dove, and our first "Darwin's" finch-Medium Ground-Finch, then boarded our yacht, The Fragata, and set sail for nearby Santa Cruz island...
We landed on the island of Baltra, nearly tripped over some Land Iguanas basking by the dock, (photo), picked up our first endemic-Galapagos Dove, and our first "Darwin's" finch-Medium Ground-Finch, then boarded our yacht, The Fragata, and set sail for nearby Santa Cruz island...
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