Thursday, January 22nd Now that Panama is posted, we’re making good progress towards getting caught up on our writing. We had a great time in Colombia that I’m half way through writing. We have decided to interrupt our once in a lifetime journey to take another once in a lifetime opportunity. We’re taking advantage of […]
Tuesday, January 20 We woke up around 9 am, had breakfast at the hotel and came back to the room to watch Barak Obama’s inauguration ceremony. We have been waiting for this moment ever since we left Seattle, hoping we could be somewhere in a bar with a bunch of Americans getting drunk on beer […]
Wednesday, January 21 We woke up early, had a quick grocery store breakfast of oatmeal cookies and yogurt and were on our way to Quito. We continued riding through the Andes, surrounded by mountains on both sides, though not as spectacular as in prior days, the scenery was still very pleasant and we stopped frequently […]
Thursday, January 22 We slept in until 9:30 am, and by the time we rolled out of our room in hopes of having breakfast at the hostel, they could only serve us coffee and one glass of juice. We weren’t particularly impressed with our hostel and it was not available to us the next day, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.