Our last island visit took us the Darwin Research Centre, some native dancing at lunch, then re-forestation work. At the Darwin we saw the efforts to avoid losing all the giant tortoises. There are several species that are specific to certain islands. One had only 2 males and 8 females that couldn't find one another. So they brought to the centre but the males weren't very romantic. They went round all the world zoos to find some genetically similar males. Found one in San Diego zoo and brought him back. Little Diego is a bit of a goer & has increased the population dramatically.
Celebrity sponsors the tree planting so we all went up to the Highlands and planted some Silesia trees
I tried a bit of local dancing with the girls after dinner.
We then sailed back to Baltra where the airport is. In the evening we were treated to a wildlife night spectacular. The ship had it's lights on which attracted fish. The bigger fish arrived, the sharks arrived, the pelicans arrived. But the only ones to catch anything were the sea lions hiding under the boat. The fish were so quick, whizzing along, jumping out of the water but the sea lions were quick. None of the other predators stood a chance. The sharks looked quite dozy by comparison.
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