Was up at 4:45am on Saunday 7th to catch the boat from Isabela back to Santa Cruz to catch the bus an hour across the island to the airport to catch the plane back to Quito on the mainland to get a taxi to the hostel. Long day. Monday I caught a bus to Tambillo which is the nearest town to the Santa Marta Animal Rescue centre high up in the Andes. I think it´s about 3500 metres above sea level & God could I feel it. I walked up a hill and thought my lungs w...

I arrived on Santa Cruz, the main tourist Galapagos Island on Monday 26th August & caught a boat over to Isabela on the Tuesday. We're 960kms off the coast of Ecuador here. There are loads of islands stretching across 45,000sq kms of ocean, although only 4 have been colonized, and that wasn't until the 1940's & 50's so humans are quite new here. I'm on Isabela for almost 2 weeks which is the largest island in land mass & stradles the equator. It's...