Some more Galapagos Pictures

Ripple2
Fri 2 Jun 2006 22:19
Here´s another picture blog - some of these show just how unafraid of people the animals are - it´s unfortunately why so many of them were wiped out in the early days by sealers and whalers who came ashore and killed whatever they wanted and then carted off the tortoises live to put in their cargo holds and eat at leisure. The tortoises can go up to a year without food or water so they made the perfect ´takeaway´´ food for sailors. Happily now they are being very well protected and encouraged to breed. The sea lions are especially friendly and will jump right up into your dinghy if they can. Hope you liked our pictorial view of the islands and that they help to flesh out the wordy blogs a bit.  


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