Galapagos : Bachas Beach & Cerro Brujo

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Most of the cruise headed out today, which left only us on the excursion. We took a dingy over too Bachas Beach, Santa Cruz. We checked out some flamingos that were feeding in a pond. The white sandy beach was lined with sea turtle nests. We caught our first glimpse of a sea turtle in the ocean. There were some beautiful great blue herons and some large crabs on the beach.

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We motored over to Santa Cruz to meet up with the cruise ship, had lunch and waited for the new guests to arrive. Grabbing the gear we headed out to Cerro Brujo to take a look around. This island was much different than the others. It almost looked like Hawaii a little. We saw a bunch of land iguanas. One even walked up to us on the trail, which was pretty neat seeing as how they are the size of a small dog.

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As the sun was setting, we finished our hike with terrific light as I took pictures, we loaded the dingy and headed back to the boat for dinner.

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