Burgold in the Galapagos (Pics start at around the tenth post)
Just returned from an amazing trip to the Galapagos. Really saw and did everything I could have imagined from trekking up to the summit of the world's second highest caldera to snorkeling and swimming within inches of sea lions and giant sea turtles. It was mind blowing. Even the birds which don't startle when you approach were phenomenal. Some were as big as a pterodactyl others as small as a finch.
In any case, there was one rainy day and I slipped on some lava rocks. I didn't noti
Glad you got to see stuff before it's gone:
Galapágos menaced by tourist invasion
Tourism will wreck the wonders of the Galápagos – where animal and plant life is being wiped out by the arrival of aggressive new species – unless action is taken soon
Opening what looks like the drawer of an office filing cabinet, Gustavo Jimenez, a scientist at the Charles Darwin Foundation on the Galápagos, reaches inside, rummages around for a bit, and then pulls out not a re