Santa Cruz (south), 30 Sep 2017

This day was fun, but was marred by Jill coming down with a gastrointestinal bug (and then later Marie and I both ended up with it). If we had to pick a day to have this happen, this was a good day (no airplanes involved, mostly wildlife that we had seen). Marie and I were not yet experiencing symptoms, so we went on the bus to the highlands. There we saw a variety of Giant Galápagos Tortoises. The first were on the road to our destination:


Galápagos Traffic Jam

Tortoises on the road

Galápagos Tortoise





We of course all got out of the bus to look:

Sarah, John, Suzanne, Fabricio, Pete, Cedric, Francois, Barb

Tortoise stuck in barbed wire











John, Francois, Cedric, Fabricio, Sarah, Pete, Marie, Barb, tortoise
It was a good thing that we did, because one of the tortoises got its shell snagged by a barbed-wire fence. Our guide Fabricio pulled the strand up so the tortoise could get through.

At our destination, we donned boots and wandered around looking at the tortoises. They are on farmland, but the farmers and ranchers are required not to interfere in any way with their behavior or movements.

Marie in boots

Pete, Marie, Leysa, Barb, John, Fabricio, Francois, Suzanne, Sarah

Galápagos Tortoise

We also got to see their mud-bathing behavior:

Tortoises

Tortoises

Muddy Tortoise
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We took a stroll through a lava tube:

Lava tube entraince

Underground





Climbing Out

Spider
 There were egrets around, too. This seems to be a juvenile perhaps?

Wet Cattle Egret (juvenile?)
On the way back down the hill, I came down with the symptoms of the gastro bug, so that was all for shore excursions for me that day.  I did manage to climb up to the briefing area for our last briefing - a return to San Cristóbal and our last day in the Galápagos:


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