We are spending the Festive season on Isla Santa Cruz, one of the Galapagos Islands.
We arrived a week ago. We are anchored in the bay at Puerto Ayora, the main town on the island. It is a very busy place which is buzzing with boats all the time. Small cruise- ships come and go. Taxi- pangas and dinghies come and go. A freighter is offloading goods into pangas and barges and transporting to a small dock with a small mechanically worked crane. This is cumbersome and takes time..
The restaurants on the waterfront are all busy.
This is totally different from Isla Cristobal which seemed sleepy but nice.
We have been on a taxi tour to see the giant tortoises and also a lava tunnel and craters.
Yesterday we walked to the Charles Darvin Center in the town and saw the small tortoises which are kept in enclosures till they are 5-7 years and big enough to live in their natural habitat on the islands. We also saw a yellow land eguana.
It's all quite amazing.
It's Christmas and yesterday we saw a large nativity play taking place in the local park . All the local school children took part. It was wonderful. They were all so excited to do this. Our agent, Irene, is a teacher a d she alerted us to this happening.
We have just bought water as out new watermaker works with the generator with 110v. We have a problem with the generator as it runs wild to 75Hertz and has to be turned off.
Water here is $1 a gallon! We bought 80 gallons.
Happy Christmas and New year.
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