Saturday, April 27, 2013

Easter trip. Day 3. The Darwin center and Tortuga Bay

The third day of our trip we were still on Santa Cruz island, as it was still lost of things to see. We had to go to the Darwin Center anyway to get our passports back, but it was a great place to start anyway. We could not resist to stop by the fishermans harbour again, where three sea lions were fighting for a piece of fish.

After getting back our passport and paying the National Park fee, we went to the Darwin center to take a look at the giant tortoises. We learnt a lot about them, too.

Nearby there was a nice beach, too. La playa de la estación, that belongs to the Charles Darwin Research Center, too. Nice and clean beach, not so big though, but great after walking under the sun and watching the tortoises.
Here is one of the marine iguanas on the beach.

After taking a break for lunch, we went to Tortuga Bay, the best beach I have been to ever (that one, and some of the places in Lofoten islands here in Norway, of course). The path to the beach goes through the cactus forest and takes approximately 40 minutes. But when you see THIS, you know it was worth it.

We got the instructions not to swim on the first beach we see, bacause the waves there are too dangerous. So we walked several long kilometers of the beach to a small one where the water is more quiet. Later we realized that for the kind of swimming we need, we can stay on the first beach, we were mostly playing with water and sand, so that was not so dangerous. But this beach was nice, too.

We were supposed to take a boat back to Puerto Ayora, but we had a misunderstanding with the boat guy, so we missed the last one. But that gave us a chance to walk all the beautiful way back under the sunset.

I have never seen her happier!

Now just 40 minutes walking back :-)

We had a great day, Greta enjoyed playing with the sand, the sea, watching the animals on the beach. She even walked (actually, she was running) herself all the long beach. I was so proud of her.
But we will come back here two more times, even if we did not know it yet...

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