Jan 2: Galapagos Day 6: Giant Tortoise Day

Today we reached another new island for “Giant Tortoise Day”. We started with dozens of wild giant tortoises littering the fields and woods, which was not the natural environment we had pictured them in.

After a quick side-trip where we walked through a giant lava-tube, we went to see one of the most famous individual animals in the world: Lonesome George. However, at 170 years-old George was wiser than we were and had taken shelter from the oppressive heat and all we could see was his rear-end sticking out from under an enclosure.

Other than the tortoises, we didn't care for this island as much since, unlike any of the previous islands we've been to, it suffered from an infestation of upright, hairless primates who dominated the landscape and made a lot of noise. We were happy to get back to the boat.

On the bright side, we did manage to score some $6 bottles of rum to take back to the boat, and even managed to stay up drinking to a respectable hour.