Tuesday, 18 August 2018
Galapagos Day 4
Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz is the largest town in the Galapagos. Cruise ships stop here to reprovision mid-voyage. It's also the home of the Charles Darwin Research Station (next blog post).
Galapagos Day 4
Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz is the largest town in the Galapagos. Cruise ships stop here to reprovision mid-voyage. It's also the home of the Charles Darwin Research Station (next blog post).
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| The fish market features spiny lobsters. |
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| The town cemetery has a colorful wall surrounding it. |
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| The cemetery is an above-ground one because the ground is solid rock (lava), and it's too difficult to dig graves. |
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| A mockingbird posed for us. |
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| Seeds of the button mangrove. |
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| We got to see some of the "tree" prickly pear cacti up close. |
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| The "bark" of the prickly pear tree shows its cactus beginnings. |
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| And finally, my favorite art work of the trip. A riff on the Sistine Chapel, with a tortoise as Adam, Charles Darwin as God, and boobies, frigatebirds, and flying tortoises rather than cherubs. This was on the back wall in The Rock cafe. |
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