Preview of Fiachracooke's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Ecuador Entry Title: "I" Entry: "Saturday 10th Nov Oh maaan. Little sleep last night by anyone. It was pretty rocky all night, the boat stopped around 5am and we are up for breakfast at 7:30... me with all the girls at one table. Our first stop was onto the island of San Cristobal and to the town of Puerto Boquerizo Moreno to visit an interpretive centre. Before we headed there we got our snorkeling gear together and some wetsuits for a little swimming later on. We followed Roberto to the interpretive centre, all of us slightly shakily legged from still getting our sea legs. The centre told the story of the islands, who came here first, what went on, scandals, murders, germans and norweigens etc. Aside from pirates and the like, whalers used to come here as a stopover before heading into the deep ocean to stock up on food... such as Galapagos tortoises. At any one time they might take 200 on board! The tortoises could live up to year without food and little water so they were perfect for them... and they tasted right good too! But we never found out.... After an hour or so we strolled down to a small beach where we had previously heard a load of noise that sounded like either a donkey or dogs or some type of hybrid... Turns out, there was about 8 or so sea ...
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