Well, we made it to the Galápagos!! What a beautiful place. Dropped everything on the boat and got to meet our fellow travelers and crew. Then before heading out to the first Island (that same afternoon), we got to swim a little and dive off the top deck of the boat! What fun and the water was so salty that you barely had to swim.
Then we grabbed our stylish orange lifejackets and headed in small boats to North Seymore Island. Not a second after we had stepped off the Zodiac, I almost stepped on a baby sea lion that was basking on the steps.... there was another near by and oh my goodness were they adorable... I got a video of them playing and rolling and growling! Then two steps later we saw our first (of sooooo many) land iguana. They have spikes all down their body and are bright yellow as opposed to the marine iquanas which are black and sneeze salt out of their noses! The rest of the island was a plethora of Blue Footed Boobies (doing their famous, goofy mating dance), Frigets (the male birds have huge red balloon like sacks on their neck that they blow up to attrack their mates), tiny lava lizards, sea lions of every size, and a rocky dry landscape.
Back on the boat, we had dinner and then gathered on the upper deck to scout for sharks (the boat lights attract fish, which attract sea lions, which attract sharks)... unfortunatly though we saw the fish, the sea lions, a pelican, and even a huge sting ray, but no shark.
Oh yah and I beat my dad really badly at cribbage!
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