Galapagos Islands, Ecuador - Isabela, Sunday 12th May 2013
Another day, another speedboat - and, thanks to the miracle of motion sickness tablets, we arrive safe and sound on the third island of our Galapagos trip, Isabela (the big island that looks like a seahorse, due to its spine of five volcanoes).
The afternoon sees us back in another boat, visiting the mangrove swamps that are home to penguins, annis (big black birds), boobies and sea-lions, before landing on the Tintoreras Islands, the home of many marine iguanas, who seem to like nothing better than lolling around on the black volcanic lava and white south-facing algae, spitting salt. As well as the well-camouflaged iguanas, we pass a trench filled with white-tipped sharks, who swim to and fro (though don't make great photos), stand on a coral beach guarded by a solitary male sea-lion and I go snorkelling from the boat, seeing yet more tropical fish and an impressively large ray basking on the sea-bed before I chicken out and climb back into the boat.
Exhausting, but mind-blowing, stuff!
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