Galapagos: Day 3 - Playa Tortuga

We ran out of water on the boat last night, and since we are at anchor, we cannot just fill up with a hose. So, we ran the watermaker for a few hours today and it worked great...at first. It stopped working a few hours in and we have yet to figure out why. Hopefully this doesn't delay us too much. It is not a convenience that I want to lose on our big passage a week from now.

Jan, Minnie and I walked to Playa Tortuga today (Turtle Beach?). It was the best beach I have been to yet. There was a nice 2.5 km walk to the beach.

It was an absolutely stunning white sand beach, the type of thing you'd see in a movie with only a handful of people on it.

It seems like all animals here have been 'touched by the volcanoes' in some way, even the seagulls.

We walked around and saw a ton of big, black marine iguanas that were strangely great swimmers.

You came to the wrong neighbourhood motherf$#&@$#...

There were a ton of black and red crabs crawling on the lava rocks everywhere.

There was a forest made entirely of cacti.

We rented some kayaks and paddled out to some great snorkelling spots which were rich with sea turtles, rays, sharks, sea lions. The whole gang was there.

It was one heck of a day. We met a guy from France who we are going to meet up with tonight for some drinks.

Tomorrow, we are going to start venturing to some of the other islands here. Looking forward to it!