With literally just days until I am back in the UK I wanted to post some pictures from my wonderful time in the Galapagos, if only to give you a flavour of where I have been for the last 2 weeks! In any event, I will tell you the TRUE story of Lonesome George, in case you do not know it.... Once upon a time in the Galapagos, on the Island (of which there are many here and I only peeked at 7) called Pinta lived over 100,000 giant tortoises. They pretty much had the place to themselves until over the course of the 1800s and early 1900s sailors, whalers, and inhabitants of the islands liked the tasty meat and pretty much ate the tortoises to near extinction, the final nail in the coffin was when
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