After 7 weeks of intensive Spanish classes, I decided to treat myself to a trip to The Galapagos Islands. I chose to do a land based tour rather than the more traditional boat tour largely because it´s cheaper (and included a bunch of free activities), but also because my money then goes to people who live on the islands (hotels and restaurants) rather than the owners of the boats who are often not even from Ecuador. My small attempt at Eco tourism.
All of my photos (warning, there are a lot of them) can be viewed here: http://picasaweb.google.com/dayna.erickson/Glapagos# (and yes, I did spell Galapagos wrong in the album title, but I can´t figure out how to change it in Picasa, anyone know?)
Here are some of my favorites though. A narrative of the trip will follow next time I´m at a computer.
I´m off to catch a bus!
Lovingly,
Dayna
Taken while snorkeling.
Sunset on Isabella Island
Male Magnificent Frigate (only the single ones puff up their throats like that, trying to get chicks.) 
Blue Footed Boobie!!!!
A tortoise having lunch.
Tortuga Bay
One of many friendly Sea Lions.
I love this guy. He looks like ET... or ET looks like him since I think he´s older.
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You left out some really good ones (I know, there's just too many!):
* Oktoberfest!
* Swimming in the cool channel of rocks
* Crawling with the (?) Gila monster
* Rock climbing on the cliffs (you did do some climbing / cliff jumping, right?!)
Pretty money, keep the photos coming!
-HB
'Blue Footed Boobie!!!!'
Four exclamation markers, you're almost as excited to see boobies as I am.
FYI the 'gila monster' thing is a pink iguana--the are only on one of the islands. There was a recent study on them to demonstrate the divergence from the marine iguanas on the rest of the Galapagos and the mainland.
Yep, I'm still a nerd.
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