Tortuga

Sorry for disappearing for two days, but I got back up with assignments that turned out to be tougher to make than I thought I'll make up for that by writing a blog for each day i missed. Anyways, on Friday June fifth we took a trip over to Tortuga. A small island off the coast of Isabela that is inaccessible to humans. I realized that when i got there. Originally I thought we would get off on the island and snorkel around a bay or something of that sort... Little did I know we would be snorkeling in virtually open ocean with and next to the waves crashing against the island walls. We did a little bit of bird watching and we got really lucky to see some male frigate birds in heat even though their mating season has already passed. All over the island were masked boobys, blue-footed boobys, frigate birds, and maybe a few albatrosses. There so many different birds could only name those few. Later we jumped off the boat and into the dark blue water. With Manuel, or Manuku (the hotel owner of where we are staying) as he is known, as our guide the dive was amazing. He had the ability to find some of the more cryptic animals in the area like an octopus, and this beautiful and huge lobster. Once again, we were joined by a sea lion. Sadly, the water turned bad when tiny jelly fish swarmed in, so we had to jump back into the boat and snorkel else where.