Helen: We´re here!! On San Cristobal at the moment - arrived at sparrow´s fart this morning. It´s daft - having spent several days motoring in the doldrums, when we got close to the islands this enormous westerly current kicked in (helped by the fact that it was full moon) and, even when we took all the sails down we STILL drifted west at about 2 knots. So we had to spend most of yesterday trying to go the wrong way so that we wouldn´t arrive in the middle of the night. Crazy.
But, here we are. Have been told that unfortunatley we can´t stop at all three of the inhabited islands - only one (well, we can stop at them all, but then you have to pay 3 times, and, at $100 a time, that´s prohibitively expensive). So we have to choose. C and I want to stay here as it´s chilled out and you can go walking. Think our skipper might want to go to Santa Cruz though as that´s where all the tourists go to get their boat tours. Hmmmmm. Hopefully either way we´ll get to go to Isabela too and do a 2 day hike up a volcano - after 8 days on a 41 foot yacht we both need to stretch our legs!!
Haven´t seen a tortoise yet...but hope to soon - looking out for a giant strawberry as that´s surely where the giant torts will be. Have seen lots of seals though - apprently you have to be careful where you park you dinghy here otherwise when you come back it´s full of seals!
Right, have to go - more later
H&Cxx
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Look forward to seeing the pictures - giant strawberries for giant tortoises sounds a little like Gulliver's Travels! Glad you out of the doldrums - confess I had not checked on the blog for a while, assuming you were at sea. It was very good to hear your voice the other day, although it was very crackly. I hope you have picked up my email. We are just off up to Guy's to start emptying my room of a million years of accumulated papers - thought father needed to experience "throwing stuff away" on an industrial scale! Take care, much love, Susan xx
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