Galapagos

Noah,  this post is veryyyy overdue! Sorry it took so long to finally write it, but here is finally the overview of my 5 day trip to the Galapagos!

yes, this was the color of the water. 

We started out in the airport of my city, Guayaquil, and all 75 of us took a quick plane ride to one of the small Galapagos Islands called Baltra. From there we took a beautiful boat ride over the turquoise water to our hotel where we stayed for 2 nights.

Dolphins! 

On the way to the hotel we got to see sting rays, flying fish, and
dolphins swimming and jumping out of the water right next to our boat!

The island we were staying on was really small, but was nice because we could walk around. There were sea lions everyone!! They would be laying in the middle of the street or on a playground napping as they please, but don't get to close, because they like to bite.

Chilling out in the sun

The first night at the hotel we just all hung out and bought up about what we have been up to in our cities since the last time we saw each other in December, or as late as October. The day after we took a boat taxi to another little island that was discovered by germans yearssss ago. there we got to see the famous giant tortoises! The older one, George, had just died a few months before, so we didn't get to meet him unfortunately. At this island we got to climb to the top and get a beautiful view.

Every day we took a few hours to snorkel is different spots, and see an amazing variety of exotic fish. I got to swim next to sea lions, and eve caught a ride from a sea turtle by grabbing it's shell and having it pull me through the water! On our second to last day we went to a special rock formation that sticks up out of the water that was formed from lava. Here, in the canal between the 2 formations, giant speckled sting rays and hammer head sharks come to swim, so of course we went to swim with them! This was terrifying but so cool at the same time! I saw a few sharks and 1 sting ray, and some of the braver guys swam down to touch the tail of the sharks!