Arriving to Galapagos -February 27th 2013

Our last night shift and an early morning sighting of the Galapagos Islands. Those of you who got your atlas out will know the most westerly island is Isla San Cristobal. This is one of the inhabited islands and is the place where we will check into Galapagos, pay our park fee of $100.00 per person and get the information we need to organize ourselves for the next four weeks.

Our wind died completely last evening so we have had to motor again. And I spoke too soon about our fishing. Just as we were serving dessert, we caught a lovely big tuna. Enough for a couple of meals at least. And it bit on our shiny new lure while we were under sail traveling at about 4 knots per hour. A nice surprise for sure.

The sun rose in the east, a beautiful sky and an almost perfectly flat sea and looking West we could see the first sight of land. As we got closer, seals and sea lions come by and pop their heads out of the water to see us. Ah, Galapagos. I hope it is everything I dreamed of.