Posts in Category: Galapagos Islands
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Santa Cruz – Gateway to the Galapagos
You might wonder at the title of this post as our Adventures Abroad group is only heading to the island of Santa Cruz at the end of our stay in this wondrous archipelago. However, for the vast majority of visitors to the Galapagos the airport on nearby Baltra Island is the most likely landing spot […]
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Exploring Isabela – A Natural Wonderland
This is my third post from the largest of the Galapagos Islands, Isabela. In the first one we marvelled at the unique Galapagos wildlife found both on and below the surface of the waters of Tintoreras Islet. In the second we sought out the famous giant tortoises for which the islands are known. In this […]
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Tortoises of Isabela
This is the fourth post from the Galapagos Islands on this Ecuadorian odyssey with Adventures Abroad. In the first three we encountered many of the most famous species for which this unique archipelago is renowned such as Darwin finches, Galapagos penguins and sea lions and of course the one of a kind marine iguanas. However, […]
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Isabela – Galapagos’ Largest Island
In the last post our Adventures Abroad group enjoyed a day on the water visiting famed Kicker Rock on the island of San Cristobal. Our two days on the island were just enough to get a taste of what makes the Galapagos archipelago so unique and now we will continue to find out more about […]
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Kicker Rock – San Cristobal by Boat
In the last post on this Adventures Abroad Experiental tour of Ecuador we landed on the Galapagos island of San Cristobal and immediately were immersed in the amazing wildlife for which the archipelago is so famous. In this post we’ll board a small boat and continue to look for more unique species on land and […]
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San Cristobal – Where Evolution was Born
I’ve been waiting almost my entire life to visit the Galapagos Islands and today that is finally going to happen. I know I’m dating myself, but my fascination with this unique archipelago goes all the way back to the 1960’s when the CBC (that’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those who aren’t Canucks) aired a five […]