Last full day in Galapagos

Today is our last full day in the Galapagos. 

Today we have decided it is a beach day and found that there are beaches to walk to not too far from our hotel.


The first beach you reach is absolutely beautiful but not safe for swimming.  There are large breakers and lots of current, definitely not inviting for swimming but a beautiful white sand beach.  5 of us met this morning and walked to Tortuga Bay beach. 

It is about a 20 minute walk to the entrance, then a 45 minute walk along a path to the actual beach. 

This is the closest swimming beach to town which is too bad for the locals, it is quite a hike to take your kids swimming. 

If you walk to the very end of the beach through the mangrove you have access to a nice calm lagoon. 

We did a little detour before getting to the lagoon and walked out to the point, lots of marine iguanas here, and some more blue footed boobies, and from above you could see the turtles in the lagoon

2 people rented a kayak, Andre and I went snorkelling, and the other girl stayed on the beach and watched our stuff and wrote postcards.  The snorkelling was not that good, the water was quite murky.  This was the warmest water we have been in since we have been here, and it is so salty it was very easy to just float around. 

The 2 that went kayaking came in after about an hour and were all excited over all the sharks they had seen, Andre ventured out with his snorkel gear but didn’t last too long, there were so many sharks it kind of freaked him out, he said it was so murky that he wasn’t sure that they didn’t know what he was and that kind of bothered him, so he went and rented a kayak to check them out further. 


The other couple by now have headed back into town, but the 3 of us stayed on the beach for a couple of hours before heading back to town for lunch.  I wasn’t really interested in seeing them but after his visit with the sharks he brought the kayak into me and told me I really should go look.  I love the blue footed boobies, but when they dive behind you while you are looking for sharks I didn’t appreciate them so much!

The guide had told us about where to get the best cervices in town, turns out we ended up at a different place, right at the docks where the ferry leaves for the different islands.  This was a great spot, lots of action during lunch. 

After lunch we split up, we went back to our hotel to start packing up, did a little more exploring around town, and then met everyone for supper. 

To get to the restaurant for supper we had to take a water taxi across to the point in the harbour, during the crossing we got the driver to go by our boat the Samba, this was very funny for us because we saw a whole new group sitting at the dinner table we had spent the last week at, we started yelling at the ship for our waiter/bartender/porter on board named Nixon and he came out to the bow and waved at us, so funny I’m sure he had no clue who we were. 

We had a very nice last dinner, we had had some fun with the menu in getting this night organized, the meal was included in our tour but we were give so many different menu options, but then told we all had to decide on one, it was very strange and of course caused lots of laughs but we all survived.  I imagine this will be our last meal together, it will be strange just having the 2 of us together again, one of the girls thinks we are going to go through separation anxiety.  Off to bed, another early morning tomorrow, we’re being picked up at 7:15 for our ride to the airport.