Wow, talk about seeing dreams come true... here we are!! All the years of wanting to visit the Galapagos, and we are here hanging out in the same harbor as Charles Darwin... in our own boat.

We have managed to find an internet cafe and have a couple of pictures to post (not a lot of time to write text write now). I also recovered from 'technical difficulties'... all the posts I sent during the last 4 days were missing from the blog (I sent them to the wrong email address).


But we got cleared in with all the officials with the help of our agent, Bolivar Pesantes. A half hour after we dropped anchor in Wreck Bay (Puerto Baquerizo Moreno) San Cristobal, Bolivar brought the whole crew to Soggy Paws... The Port Captain and his assistant, the Medical guy, and the Agricultural guy. Thank God we didn't also need Immigration! Lots of paperwork. Lots of smiles and handshakes. Then they told us 'come with us, right now, to finish the process'. So we scrambled to get ready and took the water taxi in.

We haven't seen any Galapagos tortoises yet, but we do have sea lions swimming around the boat. Here's a picture of our first one.


We went swimming afterwards, and had a sea lion swimming with us. They are also all over the beach, the rocks, adjacent boats, the sidewalks, etc. The distinctive smell of sea lion poo is pervasive in places along the waterfront (though the town does a great job of cleaning up after them). We have already taken about a hundred pictures of sea lions... I'll gather the best together for dedicated sea lion post some time.

Tomorrow we have arranged for an all day taxi tour to see the various places accessible by road, including a turtle exhibit, etc.

Labels: Galapagos