Travel to Galapagos
Our travel to the Galápagos Islands from Quito was not without a couple snafu’s, but we made it without any complete disasters. We were told to arrive at the airport no later than 11am so that we could get on our boat in time for our 5-night live-aboard. Our first flight had some issues which made us almost 3 hours late, but the waited for us!
Our guide met us at the airport. His name was Juan, or his newly learned African name which we referred to him as was Tsingu. ALS on our boat was two Russians, Serge and Allah, and two from Netherlands, Rick and Veronique. Everybody gets along quite we’ll, although the Russians don’t speak much English and keep mostly to themselves. There are four additional crew as we’ll. Captain, Captain’s assistant, the chef Virgilio, “engineer” Paul (Pah-ool), and bartender, cleaner, server, Ingrid. I think my favorite ( besides our amazing guide Tsingu), is the Chef, because he constantly wears sunglasses, often a Hawaiian shirt, and seems to be regularly drunk.
We set out quickly after we got on the boat and saw a ton if really cool wildlife on the first afternoon. We stopped at a white sandy beach where we snorkeled from shore, and saw flamingos, marine iguanas, blue footed boobies, and Frigate birds, to name only a few. The weather is pretty hot and we have quite a lot if free time to lounge around on the boat and relax as we motor from one island to another.