Bad Knees Travel

A dome shell tortoise   The Galapagos trip ended up being a saga rather than a post.   For links to the whole trip please go to the first Galapagos post. This was the last full day in the Galapagos. It was more of what I expected from a tour, a very good tour. I was also beginning to run out of steam at this point. Not their fault, just me getting tired. It was also the only time we got to go around an inhabited part of the islands. This page is dedicated to Renee who went on a Galapagos expedition and set me to thinking about doing it and Jenny, Saraj, and Riggy who showed me to be a very amateur photographer was another way to make sense of what I was seeing. ("Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." attributed to many people, but I heard from Faith Petric.) We landed at Puerto Ayora, one of the few large towns (or perhaps small city) on Santa Cruz Island. Immediately we saw three differences.   There were people here.  We really had not seen any...

The Galapagos trip ended up being a saga rather than a post.   For links to the whole trip please go to the first Galapagos post. I have such strong memories, but attaching each memory to an island is difficult. The fact that I am time spacy did not make sorting all of this into order for the blog any easier.  So much was packed into so little time. I am getting my stride a bit at handling the photos.  There are so many, and I have to decrease the size because of upload limitations.  As always, these are all  my photos unless otherwise noted. You can view them all as a slideshow by clicking on any of them. I am still having problems with the Blog software. Getting the photos to go where I want them to go is still eluding me. I have decided to use captions on each photo rather than doing a narrative.  Sombrero Chino Island (Chinese Hat Island) was about baby sealions and salt.  And something so special happened that I posted it in a whole separate ...