Isabela Island

WHALES!!! We woke up and soom after there was a call to our cabins that there were whales off the side of the boat. We saw a mother and baby Bryde Whale swimming along and blowing water into the air. It was pretty cool, but they didn't show us much more than their backs.

After breakfast we went hunting for land iguanas... these are much brighter in color, bigger than the marine iguanas, and live farther in on the islands. We saw lot's of them right on our path.... some agressive males even had a fight and boy can these guys run fast!! It was crazy. As we rounded the final turn, a solitary tortoise was lumbering down our path.... it was so lucky for us to see him in this area. It was really incredible because although these animals are more shy, he walked right past us and went on his way.

As we loaded back onto our Zodiacs, it began to rain, but don't worry, it was soooo warm! We motored around a rock thrusting out of the water and we named it "review rock" because it had almost every specie we had seen thus far. We also saw some beautiful rainbows as we headed back to the ship.

Later that day we had another walk across some more amazing lava fields and had our first flamingo sightings! We also heard some funny birds that sounded like squeek toys!