Our holiday starts, fresh from the airport we are welcomed at the casa de ciclistas by Santiago in Tumbaco
Quito by night from the Secret Garden hostel
North Seymour Island, frigate birds
male frigate bird
frigate bird, juvenile
mim and juvenile frigate bird
male frigate bird and chick
blue footed booby
North Seymour Island, blue footed booby mating dance
sealion
mim and sealion pup
sealion pup
Reyndert
Alister and mim
marine iguanas
Drawin finch
Santa Cruz Island, opuntia cactus
Mim and Opuntia cactus at the Darwin research station
Darwin research station, mim chats with a giant tortoise
giant tortoise
Reyndert and Anna in tortoise skeletons
pretty heavy those turtle bones
brother and sister
Alister and Anna
chillin on the beach
sealions
sealion pup and mum
sealion with pup
sealion underwater (photo by Steve and Christa)
marine iguana
lava lizzard
dancing booby
Nazca boobies on Española island
Nazca booby chick
mating dance of the waved albatros
waved albatros
Floreana Island, flamingos
flamingo
Mim, Anna, reyndert
cameras....big bigger biggest
blue footed booby fishing (photo by Steve and Christa)
Green sea turtle (photo by Steve and Christa)
Anna and Alister on the Sagitta
Alister
Flightless cormorant
Galapagos (Humboldt) penguins
penguin
penguins
Sally lightfoot crab on lava rock
lava rock and candelabra cactus
lava rock
Lava cactus
mim and Reyndert
mim on the lava rocks
mim and candelabra cactus
Darwin finch
land iguana
land iguanas
tortoise
A and R
Manuel takes us out on a panga ride
crabs and rock
yellow crowned night herron
sea turtle
the money shot... diving blue footed booby
the Sagitta
Bartolome island
Bartolome Island
Huanchaco, a beach town near Trujillo, with 'caballitos de tortora' or traditional reed boats in the foreground.`
mim
the final morning of our Galapagos cruise, Black Turtle Cove
Black Turtle Cove, golden cow rays
Blue footed boobies
boobies are feeding en masse
Ben and Anna in the machine room of the Sagitta
Mim and Anna playing like the early days, checking out the native flutes in Otovalo
Anna with Reynderts new Panama hat, Otovalo
Anna, Alister and Basil at the Secret Garden hostel near Cotopaxi
Mim, Ali and R
Ali and R on a hike
pole dancing 1
pole dancing 2
pole dancing 3
waterfall hike
basil, Anna and Reyndert
Finally on top of volcan Pasochoa, 4200 m, Reyndert needs a break
Mim makes it to the refugio at 4800 m!
scrabble at the secret garden hostel
Our last view of Cotopaxi.
