We arrived on Isabela Island in the Galapagos on Sunday evening for our last week of Mountain Geology. The journey here involved a plane and multiple boats and buses, totaling about 13 hours of travel time. It was definitely worth the wait though, just during our travels we saw giant tortoises, sea lions, a sea turtle, pelicans and huge dinosaur-like birds. The sand here is amazingly soft and we have spent most of our free time out on the beach and snorkeling. Today we went to Sierra Negra volcano to look at really fascinating lava rock formations. The hike was a total of 10 miles and it was a hot one. After the hike we went to a cave called Cueva Sucre, named after a man, Sucre, that lived in the cave in the 1900s and lived off nature. The inside of the cave was covered with a shiny gold substance that is actually not a mineral at all, but rather a lichen. I'm loving my time here on Isabela and can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!
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