Sitting at the port and watching the pelicans fishing.
Earlier this morning landed at the Baltra airport and took a ferry+bus through the Santa Cruz Island to Puerto Ayora. Very expensive and touristic here. (Everybody is selling "I love boobies" T-shirts.)
Being an inhabited place, Puerto Ayora is not the best place for wildlife spotting. Nevertheless we have already seen frigatbirds, pelicans, finches, a heron, lizards, crabs, sea lions, and marine iguanas.
2010-01-16
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The Galapagos Islands are the most incredible living museum of evolutionary changes, with a huge variety of exotic species (birds, land and sea animals, plants) and landscapes not seen anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Galapagos is an incredible place. However, the number of different species there is not that huge, e.g. the seals and sea lions are the only representatives of mammals (the few original species of Galapagos rats and mice are extinct, if I remember correctly).
ReplyDeleteAlso, similar landscapes might be found in other volcanically active places, but I need travel some more to confirm that. :)