galapagos continued... (b/c this server is crazy)

the next day we traveled to the island floresta, where there is a post office system in which tourists leave letters and take letters that have been left back to their home countries or states to hand deliver or send when they return. i left a few (so some of you may be receiving suprises…if the system works) and took a couple post cards, one to be sent to houston (i hope to hand deliver it at christmas time) and the other i will mail to midland. later we went snorkeling again and saw a pretty sizable shark! as well as huge schools of fish of all different sizes and colors. there were also lots of penguins swimming near the beaches and blue-footed boobies on the rocks.

then we went off to san cristobal, the capital of the islands, and visited a beach where there were toooons of sea lions just hanging out, with their babies. we would have been able to touch them, we were so close. the next day we hiked around some more on a volcano and visited a nature center. then back home to quito… que triste! :)
its really amazing that places so diverse like this exist in the world, so alive, tranquil, and refreshing. i don’t think i’ll ever cease to be amazed at the beauties in this world.

only two days of school this week, then off to my first field-research experience working with an indigenous rights group!