Andrea and I want on an inland tour of the
island. The guide first took us to his home to show us how he
lived. He had moved out from the town to a smallholding where he
raised chickens and a goat that he rescued from the national park (feral
goats are pests in the Galapagos). His house was totally
self-sufficient with solar panels for electricity and water collection
from the roof. When he heard that we were
setting off on a long trip he took us to his fruit plantation and cut down
two hands of bananas, three guavas and a large squash for us to take with
us.
Then we visited a lava tunnel. When a river of
molten lava cools down it tends to harden on the outside first, forming
tubes through which the still-molten lava runs out. One of the
tourist attractions on Santa Cruz is a 400m tunnel that you can walk (and
eventually crawl)
through.