Galapagos Part 2!

Clearly i failed at the "i´ll blog a little every day" thing. I mean i tried, really i did. One day i uploaded a bunch of pictures so that should count for something right? hahaha. anyway... here´s some more of my fabulous adventures!

A hatchery for the galapagos...

With even the little babies!!!

And we got to hold an egg. The markings on it indicate the position it was sitting when they removed it from the nest. The x has to stay on top for it to survive. Cool fact: the sex of baby turtles is determined by the temperature during the time they hatch. More guys are born at 28.5 degrees celcius and more girls at 29.5 degrees celcius.

Sadly i had to resort to posting the picture of the galapagos sex instead of the video. it still wont load :(.

At one point, the island isabella was where they sent prisoners from the mainland. To keep them occupied they had them build this huge wall (now called muro de lágrimas "wall of tears") which was an incredible amount of labor. It was supposed to be a foursided containment area, but they never finished. After a year the guy in charge died and it all went down hill from there and eventually the island ceased being a prison. Today there´s only one guy alive who was a prisoner and he still lives on the island.

A view from the top of the wall...

And believe it or not, i fell for the ole "do you want to go on a walk for a better view" trick again. What did we do? hike up the side of the mountain. In rainbows (good thing those flip flops were built to last!). I swore i never would fall for it, but i did. i only have myself to blame. However, the view was totally worth it!

Some shots of the playa... gorgeous sunsets here! Radiant colors! We just sat and watched one night for like an hour. It was like a movie...

One of my favorite parts was the coconuts! SOOOOOO GOOOOD! And you get to eat them after... :)

We went and hiked a volcano on the isabella, a six hour extravaganza. The top pic is me overlooking the lava flow area. The volcano is still active and about 30 years ago was the most recent lava flow.  The bottom picture is of a vein of lava that partially collapsed. It still amazes me that lava flows in veins... not sure why, but i think its really cool.

Well, you wouldn´t believe it by the first two picks, but about 4 miles into the hike we got some tropical weather. Usually the storm passes after dumping for about 5 minutes. Well, it didn´t. It continued for the rest of the trip, all 6 miles of it. And it dumped sooooooo much water. Lets just say that the trail had about a foot of water on it the majority of the time... On the bus ride back i snapped this photo of the road. We pretty much drove through a river the whole way. Our driver rocked!

When we were out snorkeling, i got to drive the boat. Sweet deal. And there weren´t any casualties. Plus one for me!

The beautiful sunrise the day we left the island... you only have to get up at 4:45 to see it. NBD.