Our last day in the Galapagos Islands!! It was great, but this week sure went fast! ! ! !
Brett went on one last deep water dive. He loved it again. He said it was the best ever. While he was there, I took the zodiac in to the beach at Garner Bay. It was like being at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla times ten. One of the naturalists who does a count each week counted either 162 or 192 sea lions. A large percentage of them were mothers with babies. The big difference is that you could walk right between them, and they would just continue sleeping! ! ! The babies that were nursing made the exact same noise as baby people, slurping away!!! I was close enough that I could see the sucking a swallowing as I heard each slurp. We saw a few altercations, but fortunately, they were between sea lions, not us. Brett got there after about an hour. We looked around a little more, then back to the boat.
After lunch (really, we should never be hungry again!!!) we made our last landing at Punta Suarez. Mores sea lions, BEAUTIFUL marine iguanas with a surprisingly bright red coloring, blue footed boobies and their babies, and then, AMAZINGLY, albatross! ! ! ! I don’t know what the plural is, but there were tons of them, and babies, too.
Tonight we have to pack up, and get ready to . . . . . . .HEAD FOR PERU! ! ! !
Adios!!!!
OH MY GOSH – I wrote the previous part before dinner. Dinner was great. Then there was a surprise cake and singing by the crew for a birthday. Then the lights went off, and there was singing in Spanish and commotion and chaos and it was an ANNIVERSARY cake for us. Two shocking surprise parties in one month. I’ve aged a lot!!! We don’t even know who told them. Both Brett and I have mentioned it to a couple of people, but who knows who told . . . Anyway, it was very nice (and more shock and awe)!!!
ADIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!