Galapagos pre-cruise

Highlights:
- Seeing so many sea lions, crabs and iguanas as soon as we got into the town on San Cristobal island by the seafront and feeling like we were in a nature documentary!
- Seeing our first blue footed booby on the first day and not believing it was happening
- Spending our second day walking along a trail and stopping at various points to snorkel - the visibility wasn't great to start but the last place was amazing and our first time swimming with sea lions, and our first turtle and shark spotted
- A visit to the interpretation centre to learn about the history of the Galapagos islands
- Diving at kicker rock was an incredible experience as we got to swim with hammerhead sharks, other sharks, sea lions, a school of rays, and massive schools of fish
- Snorkeling with a marine iguana and watching it feed and swim using its tail like a fish, then snorkeling with a huge turtle, and blue footed boobies dive bombing right next to us
- Swimming at Tortuga bay on Santa Cruz island and seeing baby reef sharks and stingrays in the shallows

Lowlights:
- Our first hotel had stray dogs in the next street marking their territory so we had to take the long way round to get places!

Food and drinks:
- Managed to find cheap lunches for when we were fending for ourselves in San Cristobal!

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