Galapagos photos

Photos from a short unusual trip to the Galapagos with Mark last month. Instead of doing a tour of the animals and the park, we visited the rubbish dump and the route of a powerline which will link a new windproject Mark is involved in to the main town on Santa Cruz Island. Its part of a project to make the Galapagos self sufficient in energy from renewable sources.

It was amazing to learn about the project and see some of the wildlife - you dont have to go far from town to see it as you practically trip over iguanas and birds in the street .

I'm now looking forward lots to going back with Mum,Dad, Rachel and Mark in July for a more traditional tourist trip.


Some very interested customers at the fishmongers...







Giant tortoises at the Darwin Centre

A tiny baby turtle that Mark rescued from gulls who wanted it for dinner

The angry gulls screaming at mark

A bird

A ravine we snorkelled n
The Magnificent Frigget Bird (the ones that puff out the big red pouch bit at the front - but he didn't)


Pelican

Mark at Tortuga Bay which we walked out to from the town

me (and very small pelican above)

Me and igunana
More iguanas... (I got very carried away with Iguana photos)

Beer after snorkelling

And a random photo of my flat - looking up from the Plaza in Guapulo. Its one of hte white ones high up beneath the skyscrapers.