Day 7

Today is a day of rest ... on the 7th day ... how biblical! except in our case it is realy a day to recover after a night out in town bar hopping, inviting and being invited to drinks ... how can you say no! Look out for a spike in the stock price for Bayer :-) good thing there is plenty of ceviche and beer left ... dog's hair, is it?

After we recover the Tabasco team will do a bit of sightseeing ... we plan to go to "tortuga bay" maybe the charles darwin station, i will also stop by the open fish market ... matter of fact, i better head there before all the fish is gone.


again, bummer the link to the satelite is not the best .... means the pix will not be uploaded until L8r ...


today is also the award ceremony ... still waitng for the last ship to sail in ... so official results will not yet be posted.  though I am sure ya'll know how the standings are ...

I arrived a little late to the fish market this morning L but there were still plenty of lobsters. 

The pelicans and resident sea lion waited around in the event some additional fish scraps became available (in addition to selling you the fish the fishermen also process the fish)

Main Street (known as the malecon here) is a busy street with shops, restaurants, and private residences.  It is also the street where all the tourists that come to the tours go and walk around on buying souvenirs. 

Along the water edge running sideways one sees colorful crabs.

We met for lunch at a great restaurant overlooking the harbor.  We lucked out by getting the top platform so our view was spectacular. 

After ceviche and a mug of cold beer we had our main course which was fish (Wahoo – a sort of mini-version of the swordfish) with steamed vegetables and rice. 

Desert was cappuccino or espresso and a glass of sambuca.  Nacho, Gus and Junior had desert – seems they are not as concerned about their waistline as some of us are J

The afternoon we hung around a bit buy the square.

The rest of the afternoon was spent at Tortuga Bay, a beautiful beach with super fine white sand and clear turquoise water.  Along the 30 minute walk on is greeted by birds or lizards of different colors and shapes.  Finches – them iddy biddy birds Charles Darwin studied and based his Theory of Evolution on – I think – also abound … beaks of all shapes.  I think he was on to something and wonder only what he would have come up with if he had a chance to come here today!

One of the best features of the beach is that the iguanas will swim over to this beach and walk up to the dunes to nest.  It is therefore not unusual to be strolling down the beach when along comes and iguana, stopped only by one’s curiosity in admiring it and photographing it….

Around the bend Turtuga bay continues to what is a pool of wave-less water

We caught a ride back to town in the back of a pick-up truck …

The evening was the award ceremonies.  Even though we arrived first in our group, after the adjustments for handicap our official place is 3^rd for the race and 2^nd overall. 

Celebration followed … from the reception to the bars in town … Bayer stock continues to rise … at least for the next few days.

missing the family :-( but surrounded by great friends.


ok... off i go.... greetings from galapagos