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Galapagos 2024. Part 2

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5/2/2024

Very soon after arriving on Baltra island we were taken to Santa Cruz II, the ship that was going to be our home for the next 6 days.

It was not long before we were on our first expedition on the zodiacs to explore the coastline.

Blue-footed Booby

Brown Noddy

Juvenile Swallow-tailed Gull

6/2/2024

Overnight the boat had sailed to the island of St Cristobal. Our first trip out was in the zodiac along the coastline and later we landed on a beach and were able to walk along the shoreline.

Yellow Warbler

Wandering Tattler

Medium Ground-Finch

Small Ground-Finch

In the afternoon we went ashore and visited a breeding centre for tortoises in the highlands. We only saw captive tortoises here. We saw several San Cristobal Mockingbirds.

San Cristobal Mockingbird

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

7/1/2024

Another day, another island. Today we are visiting the island of Santa Fe.

Santa Fe Land Iguana

Galapagos Mockingbird

Galapagos Flycatcher

Common Cactus-Finch

Galapagos 2024 – Part 1

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A great trip to these amazing islands with my brother. We flew to Quito the capital of Ecuador via Amsterdam. We stayed three nights in Quito before flying onto the Galápagos Islands. We had a cultural tour of Quito one day and were quite surprised to be accompanied by two armed police officers for most of the day. The following day we went to the Cotopaxi reserve on a nature tour. We later found out that the security in Ecuador had become a bit of a problem and a curfew was brought into place whilst we were there. Luckily it did not really affect us whilst we were in Galapagos and it was only noticeable when we were in the airport on the way home, when we noticed a strong army presence and police offers with guns!

Some of the sights in Quito:

The following day was a trip to Cotopaxi Nature Reserve with a quick stop at a local market at Sangolqui.

Great Thrush

Andean Gull

Andean Lapwing

Blue-and-yellow Tanager

Our third day and we were on our way to the Galápagos Islands. We had to fly from Quito to Guayaquil and then onto the islands. We landed on Baltra Island and we were soon seeing some of the fantastic wildlife much of which is endemic to these islands. Before we had left the airport we had already seen Galapagos Dove, several Darwins finches and Iguanas.

Galapagos Dove