Thursday, January 29 Finally, after being in Quito for two and a half days running errands and scheduling our Galapagos tour we had a full day to enjoy some sightseeing. We were mainly interested in visiting the Centro Historico, which features colonial architecture the Spanish constructed over the remains of the Inca city. We had […]
Wednesday, January 28 Before we left for the Galapagos, we had scheduled an appointment with their Kawasaki dealer to take a final shot at fixing Inna’s oil leak. I also wanted to get both bike’s an oil change as this would be the last major city we’d be in for a while. Additionally, my rear […]
We have plenty more images and videos from our Galapagos trip, so rather than crush the main page with them, we’ve added a collection of pages with images from each island. You can find the images and video here: Galapagos.
Tuesday, January 27 We had one final stop in the Galapagos before being taken to Baltra to the airport. We were stopping at Las Bachas, to see more flamingos. It was another wet beach landing and once ashore, we walked the short distance to the tiny brackish pond. No flamingos. This made for a fairly […]
Monday, January 26 Overnight the boat transited from Española to Floreana. This was an east to west move, so the boat pitched forward and back against the swell as opposed to the previous night’s side to side. For whatever reason I sleep better in that motion. This morning’s excursion was to Post Office Bay. Since […]
Sunday, January 25 Our morning landing was at Gardner Bay, which was another stunning beach filled with seal lions, [qt:/southernexposure/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mvi_2427.mov 320 240] swimming iguanas, [qt:/southernexposure/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mvi_2331.mov 320 240] and four different kinds of crabs. We swam to a rock outcropping 200 ft from the beach to snorkel and saw large schools of fish, eel and sting […]
Saturday, January 24 As part of our daily routine, the breakfast was at 7 am. After which we had a dry landing at Puerto Baqurizo Moreno on San Cristobal Island to visit the Interpretative Center. I am not quite sure exactly why it was called that, particularly because our guide interpreted very little, so much […]
Friday, January 23 We woke up early, had a quick breakfast at the hostel and took a cab to the airport for our 12:30 pm flight. We were quite impressed with the free wi-fi at the airport and the service of the local Tame airline. We had a quick stop over at Guayaquil and on […]