Monday I decided that it would be best to start to move on, but a shame to not see any of the other islands, so booked us to do a day trip to the next door island of Isabela. We had orginally decided to stay there for a few days, but when we landed by boat, it looked such a sleeply town, that i was glad we did not. Even a girl who had been with the Equadorian Navy studying whales, returned to Puerto Ayora, instead of staying. When getting onto the boat i met ...

Hi, Am so behind on this so, here is hopefully a quick catch up from the last week: Sunday Diving again but with Iguana dive centre. They seem to be really good and more about the diving rather than anything else. I would say they were the best place to dive with. Today we are going to Seymore and Gordon rock. The two BEST places to dive, but you have to be an experienced diver to do them. I bumped onto some of the others from the dive centre yesterday ...

Diving!! I first booked with Silverstein diving centre to go to Cousins and Bartolome islands. We left at 7am and headed across the island to get the boat, which is a mid sized speedboat with cover. The journey took about 1hr 30 and Graham sat at the back feeling sea sick, but the rest of us seem to be ok. There were 6 of us diving. Going round the group most people had done a lot of diving with the German couple saying that they had done 640 and 560 dives! ...

Wow so much has happened! Ok, after my last entry i did manage to get motivated and headed off to the Darwin Research Centre. It´s about a 1.5mile hike out of town, but pretty flat and road to walk along. Apart from some police, and some locals i did not see anyone. I just walked in and did a tour of the area seeing the large turtles including Lonesome George and lots of iguana´s. It was quite strange doing it completely by my self. I did not see anyone...

After writing my last entry, i went back up onto the terrace of the hostel and sat with 3 guys and started chatting. 3 turned into about 22 people and we all ended up eating Chicken and veggie pie together along 4 tables over looking Quito! It was a great feeling of unity. After dinner we all spread out and some went down one end of the terrace to sit around a wheel barrow with some wood in burning. This was the smokers lot! The rest of us remained at the table j...