Charles Darwin Reserve

Today we took a walk through the town towards the Charles Darwin Reserve research centre and national park, where we found out about the ongoing research and development of the land tortoises on all of the galapagos islands including other countries in south America that help with the research (also New Zealand research has helped them alot). We visited lonesome George (he was a 'pinta island tortoise' and the last known of his species ever 😯😯🏝️) unfortunately he died in 2012 at the grand age of 102 years old... And he looked almost life like seeing his body preserved (in a big fridge) and he was absolutely massive 😯 among the other species we saw baby nurseries all the way to full grown adult tortoises; mainly Española species. Throughout the park we also got a glimpse of lizards, crabs and marine Iguanas ( their nesting areas that lay next to the beaches) 😁. The sun is so strong here we decided to take a break on one if the beaches within the reserve, which was absolutely stunning (really good for snorkeling to see marine wildlife!).Lue lisää