Tripping over wildlife

South America » Ecuador » Galápagos
August 9th 2008

Published: August 13th 2008

And so we headed off back to Quito airport for our flight to the Galapagos. Despite the hotel being lovely the staff were not quite what we had hoped and the taxi we had asked them to order the night before had not been ordered but we only found out when it didn´t show! Quito airport seemed a little larger than I recalled, or at least the facilities were better, but it was chaotic with queues eve... Read Full Entry

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14th August 2008

Claire Smith
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Soooo jealous
WOW, can't believe your sat next to a Galapagos Tortoise what an amazing experience. They make my Ant and Dec look so small :-) (for those of you who don't know, Ant and Dec are my two Horsfield tortoises)

16th August 2008

Mike
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wow 2
What an amazing place. The wildlife obviously doesn't just turn up for David Attenborough. Look forward to seeing Jon's finch entry. Finally welcome back if you are finally back here!

17th August 2008

jon peacock
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finches
Darwin originally wanted to study beagles in Finchley, but he made a mistake on the application form... Rising to Mike's bait, there is a lesson for all good pen-pushers here, as young Chas only realised the significance of island-specific beak diversity when reviewing the notes he made at the time. So if it was not for good paperwork we would still believe that the earth is a flat plate supported by a giant turtle.

18th August 2008

jon peacock
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finch parade
thanks for the challenge, not easy to search, lots of cranky sites on intelligent design and so on. my best estimates of each finch are: a. medium ground finch (dave dee) b. mangrove finch (dozy) c. sharp-beaked ground finch (beaky) d. and f. large tree finch (mick) e. gray warbler finch (tich). the "birds" on page 3 are turnstones, I think (not page 3 birds). sorry about the uk rain, not my fault.

31st August 2008

Jonathan
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Sorry Guys...
...but my favourite wildlife was the motorcycle display team... J x

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