Today we left Santa Cruz island and headed for home. We had an incredible trip. We rediscovered the meaning of a few vocabulary words -extinction, preservation, evolution, endangered, endemic and conservation. We saw all of these words in action on the islands.
Our path for home included a variety of means of transportation on our way to Baltra Airport.
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| A taxi ride to the ferry dock. |
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| Los Gemelos Watershed Area (limited water in islands) |
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| Only a few more minutes before the ferry leaves. |
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| We are the last ones on the ferry. |
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| We boarded for the ten minute crossing to Baltra Island. |
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| Running for the bus |
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| The bus is waiting to take us to the airport. |
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| Baltra Airport |
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| We begin the two hour flight to Guayaquil Airport. |
Good-bye to the Galapagos Islands.
Flying into Simon Bolivar Airport.
We had an eight hour over lay in Guayaquil so we took a taxi into the city and had lunch at a restaurant at the Mall del Sol.
During our layover at Simon Bolivar Airport we ran into Dell Cloud & Marion Lunde Cloud, Kenny Lunde and his wife Sharon. Some of you may remember Dell and Marion from went we went to Castleton State College . Marion and her brother Kenny, who were from Barre, had a camp in Lake Elmore. We hadn't seen any of them for years so we had a great time catching up on all the past news. We traveled together from Guayaquil to Burlington International Airport together. Our flight left at 10:00 PM and arrived at JFK at 4:30 AM.
When we arrived at JFK we had a 4 1/2 hour wait and then got on JetBlue and were in Burlington by 10:00 AM. We found our car, which had been left for us at the airport, and drove home.
We were glad to get home but adjusting to the cold was a shock to our systems.
Traveling in the Galapagos Islands wasn't as expensive as we had planned. We were able to travel on a reasonable budget. We did not take multi-day boat tours, we arranged our tours with local tour agencies. There are a lot of inexpensive places to stay and you don't need to make reservations in advance if you are willing to walk around town looking for a place to stay when you get on the islands. Food prices varied but you could eat a supper meal for under $10.00.
Our thanks to all of you for following our blog and letting us share this trip with you.
Jane & Charlie
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