Thanks to our talented and generous Tuneles guide and also our talented and generous friends the Brookses, we now have a host of great pictures from one our most scenic Galapagos adventures.  The photo files were copied to the huge memory card we used in our camera — but out camera could not find them.  Thankfully, Chris Brooks knows how to handle such situations.  Now we are able to share:

 

Here’s our guide, Senor Carlos himself, snapping a selfie with the girls on top of the boat.

 

 

 

He climbed all over the place to take pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

Lanie took a famous picture of a heron’s nest at this very point in the trip.

 

 

 

 

This is the terrestrial part of the trip.  We wanted to swim in the canals, but that’s not allowed.

 

 

 

 

This is when we got to swim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We followed these golden rays for quite a while, according to the pictures.

 

 

 

But what about sharks? you say.  The sharks were hiding:

 

And for good measure, here’s what it’s like to see a seahorse in the wild: