Last night was fantastic, cruising along towards Puerto Ayora, watching common and bottle-nose dolphins, frigate birds, manta rays along the way. The starry night was incredible as well. We arrived into Puerto Ayora - home to around 19 000 people. The ‘harbour’ was not really in a sheltered area, heaps of other cruise boats, sailboats and lights.
Today we went into Puerto Ayora. There were fishermen cleaning fish and surrounded by pelicans and a seal, who were all waiting for scraps. It was quite funny to watch. Off to the Charles Darwin Conservation Centre we went, to look at Galapagos Tortoises. Mark and I went with Fabian, our guide, to the LAN office into town only to be told that his bag STILL had not arrived - it apparently was in Baltra, a couple of hours away……
Did a bit of souvenir shopping, had a lovely ice cream and headed back to the boat for lunch. In the afternoon we went to the highlands to see a cloud forest and tortoises. Everyone walked and crawled through a lava tube. Later we said our goodbyes to half the group, and enjoyed dinner and drinks back on the boat. It was good to see Puerto Ayora but we are looking forward to heading back out to sea at midnight.
AND: Mark’s luggage has finally arrived, 6 days later….fantastic! I will be writing to LAN to complain, but that’s another story.
