This has taken so long to write because, basically, the experience left me speechless/overwhelmed. It’s taken a while to gain a perspective on it.

Excursions/Activities:

I could easily imagine striking off on my own and not seeing a tenth the wildlife our guides found for us. What I saw of the Galapagos was that a difference of less than a mile in anchorages can make the difference in seeing most of an islands’ exotics or not seeing any at all. Our guides seemed to always know where the sightings and gatherings of animals would be so that there was never the ‘dry hole’ watching nothing but land crabs. These are not the Florida Keys, Bahamas or jungles of Central America where the challenge is to see the wild life without endangering yourself from the shear numbers and variety. First, second and third impression of the Galapagos was a very barren, primitive area where local knowledge is the only knowledge. Read more