Last Night

Another good meal and conversation. We have eaten many of our meals with different groups of people and learned a lot about our fellow travelers, a much easier and more comfortable process than I had anticipated. We ate lunch yesterday with the only female guide (who was born and raised in the Galapagos) and has never experienced winter. She is delightfully energetic and informative. We learned that every Lindblad ship has a powerful microscope on board that is connected to the large tv screens in the lounge/briefing room, and before dinner she showed samples of sand from different beaches. She pointed out an astonishing number of sources for the grains - like tiny pieces of sea urchin spines.

Here is sunset - other photos to follow: