Ecuador Trip: Day 11
Galapagos Cruise: Day 6, Afternoon
There are those who thought I’d never return to my travel blogging about our three-week adventure in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands back in April. Some of you doubted me. Most of you doubted me. “Cindy’s forgotten us,” you thought. “That damn Cindy has left us hanging.”
I would never do that. I might take a break, but I would never hang anyone.
It is kind of unfortunate, however, that I took my travel-blogging break in the middle of a travel day. If you want to see what happened during the morning of Day 6 in the Galapagos (Day 11 in Ecuador), follow this handy-dandy link. Hint: We visited James Bay (otherwise known as Egas Port), Santiago Island. It was a totally amazing experience. Really, follow the link!
If you have a hankering to follow my Ecuador posts from the beginning of the trip, follow this link to get to the first post in the Galapagos 2012 Archives.
Okay, got that settled? You’ve followed the links, refreshed your memory, and now you want to know if I remember the rest of the trip? This is why we take pictures, my friends. Pictures bring back memories. And what I’ve forgotten, well, you know I’ll just make up. Let’s not call this an annoying aspect of my writerly personality. Let’s call it an Adventure for Your Brain! If you doubt the veracity of my anecdotes, you can research the facts yourselves. An excellent source is the new Galapagos Island travel blog started by naturalist Harry Jimenez, who was the guide during our foursome’s two-week cruise aboard the Cormorant. Harry blogs about the Galapagos experience as a whole. I’m blogging about my personal experiences. You can be assured he knows more than I do. But I’m cuter. You can make your decision from there.
Now, as I was kind of aware of before we left for our cruise, but as I became very aware of during our cruise, every island in the Galapagos has at least two names. In my posts, I use the island names I learned. In other words, the island names Harry J. told us during his evening lectures. For example, Santiago Island is also known as San Salvador (named after the first island Christopher Columbus discovered) and it’s also known as James Island. Santiago means “St. James.”
I prefer to use the Spanish island names. My mother has a Spanish first name and so does one of my aunts. They both have Spanish surnames, as did my maternal grandfather. So, you could surmise that I have a wee bit of Spanish blood, courtesy of my ancestors falling off the fleet of the Spanish Armada when Spain attempted to invade England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (at least that’s my story of how they came to land in England).
Well, there you have it. I am a mutt. Mostly English, some Dutch Mennonite by way of Russia, and about 5 other tidbits including Spanish. My husband says I can lay claim to nearly every nationality in the world, which ticks him off. But there it is. I can not help it if I’m a mutt!
After cruising around Egas Port (James Bay) on Santiago Island, we had a chance to snorkel at Espumilla Beach. This was one of our best snorkel days. All the snorkel pictures are Photo Credit: BP. This first photo is of a fish we were advised not to touch. Because see those three little dots near its tail? Take a look:
So glad the Muse has errupted again!!
Which reminds me, I haven’t another post to put up. Need to look it over again first.
And thanks, Laurie.