Travel Trivia: How are "foreign" or non-indigenous species introduced to the Galapagos? The easy answer is by humans, but popular believe is that the old pirate/privateers brought life stock on board for food, and exchanged those for tortoises, leaving pigs and goats and such behind. Rats always traveled on boats, so simply bringing anything from ship to land transfers rats. And these animals have learned to live with humans - if you can survive that, you can s...

Travel trivia: How long does it take for a blue-footed male to be found and accepted by a blue-footed female? About a month, assuming it's working hard to make itself attractive, meaning the feet turn just the right color blue. Sometimes us humans have it so easy. Yesterday was a pretty long day. Up at 4:15, off to Galapagos where we boarded the islander around 11:30. Then getting settled in at the ship, which entails unpacking, being introduced to the crew (w...