Lenka
/Lenka trying to copy a Marine iguana..
Marine Iguanas and Sally Lightfoot Crabs
/Lots and lots and lots....
To China Hat
/An early departure for Isla San Salvador and an anchorage called China Hat..I wonder why?
Crossing!
/Nearly There just another 5 minutes...!
Tortoise Crossing
/Where in the world would you see this..!
Lonesome has Gone.
/The last of the Pinta Tortoise's passed away in 2012 but he is still around in Taxidermy form..
It turned out he was Sterile, sadly.
Porto Ayora for the Day.
/We motored in the early evening across to Santa Cruz to the Roadstead anchorage arriving around 2200.
Next morning we had a very nice trip to the Famed Darwin Center in Pto Ayora and in the afternoon a trip up to the Tortoise Sanctuary in the highlands.
Santa Maria Sunset!
/Lovely Sunset this evening. All are happy and we are off to the big city of Pto Ayora a short 3 hour run. Santa cruz tomorrow for the Darwin Center
Pink or What.?
/In the afternoon we took the tender a mile away for a nice walk. There were lots of Pink Flamingos, also White chilean ones ..i goes the shrimp they feed on over there are not Pink...
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After a short hike over the small hill to a bay with Everything present..Iguanas (not the crew type) Rays, Sealions and Sharks.. Very cool
Sally Light Foot Crab
/Rocks are full of these guys..Not Edible, unless you are French!
More of Albert Ross and now Mrs Ross
/The Male Waved Albatross finds and makes the Nest then the female turns up
Post Office Bay
/These flowers bloom twice for 1 day. !st time bright Yellow and the next day the go Reddy Brown and don't fully open and that is it
Post Office Bay Santa Maria
/In the olden and even recent times. Boats would come here and fill there water casks/tanks collect a few Turtles and Tortoises and then pick up whatever mail was going there way and deliver it for the Sender.. Still the system works although there is lots more mail...
En route from Espanola to Post Office Bay Santa Maria
/A nice evening for a 50nm sail across. As mentioned the sky was amazing..
Crew Iguana
/Mark making sure a clean bottom leads to a happy Boat..