My incredible Galapagos experience began aboard the SS Marianne, a sailboat that
we took all around the beautiful islands of the Eastern Galapagos, beginning on [inaudible
00:00:10] Island, which was frankly booby central. We saw red-footed boobies, Nazca
boobies, and even blue-footed boobies. The Galapagos Islands are some of the most ecologically
unique on planet earth. On each island, you'll see different animals, each of whom arrived
there by different means. My sailing trip was incredible, but my favorite part was yet to come.
Okay, hi. It's my first time using this thing, this rig. And I'm like really nervous because
my camera, my beautiful baby is in here and I just, I tested it twice, but I just really
don't want the camera to flood. Oh, wow. I'm so nervous. I put this shirt on backwards.
And so, fingers crossed.
Hey, update. Swimming with the rig is awesome. It's tons of fun.
And I swam with turtles and sea lions and penguins. Where in the world can you do that
altogether? Check it out. It's amazing.
Today is tortoise day. So, our first little stop is Los Gemelos, which means the twins.
I have pretty impressive Spanish skills. No I don't.
Okay. Before we see tortoises, we've
come to look at a hole.
Wow. A big hole, my favorite kind.
What kind of no-good, terrible,
lazy, unhealthy person would leave a cigarette butt
on the ground in this beautiful natural place?
All right. So, basically the tortoises come here because they...during the dry season,
which is right now, this is where they can get stuff to eat. So, they're wild and they
just come and go as they please. But there's so many here that this enterprising person
decided to create sort of a tourist attraction by opening up her farm to tourists wanting
to see these giant tortoises. Respect. That's very smart.
Gonna find me my very own tortoise to hang out with.
Sit down quietly and earn its trust.
Learn it's kind and gentle ways and then we will be friends forever. Oh, that one looks good.
Look at Jen operating as the tortoise does. Oh, it's working.
Feeling a bit rejected.
This turtle just turned away. Cerrado. It's Cerrado.
You can do it. Just back in. Back in.
Yes. Reverse. There you go. Just put those legs through and shimmy.
Keep going. You can do it. You can do it.
Okay. I was doing that all wrong. Apparently you can just lift it up. Geez,
that's not light though.
Where are my legs supposed to go?
You got to go on...you got to have somebody lift up on the other side.
It's like yoga.
Just let me know if I'm pinching you. I'm gonna walk away.
Male: It's turtle yoga.
Female: That's it. Male: Yay. She's going on a search for some vegetation.
Well Santa Cruz, it's been good. We hung out with las tortugas. We danced. And
we'll be back in a few days. Time to get back on the boat now.
Okay. It's our second to
last day now and I'm about to go out and hang out with some sea lions and I just saw an
owl, which was dope and I'm pretty much obsessed with sea lions. I like can't get enough of
them. I saw them this morning and there were iguanas and that was super cool. So, hopefully,
I'll be able to hang out with them on the beach now. I'm suited up. I'm ready to go.
Let's do it.
Hello, boys and girls. It's my last day on the boat. We're at an island down south called
Espanola and this is known for the albatross. I think it's the only island where you can
see an albatross. The islands every stop has been so different. The animals that we've
seen, really glad that we came despite the civil unrest. It was pretty nerve-wracking
at first because I didn't want to bring a group of people here in two weeks if it's
going to be crazy still. But it sounds like it'll be fine. It's been smooth sailing literally,
and just going to go explore today, enjoy the last day before switching to backpacking
and diving boat.
Back again. Back again.
Male: Home sweet home.
Female: Oh, yeah. Okay. First 20 minutes in Santa Cruz and things are pretty good.
Hammock in the room. We're really easy to please.
Just hanging out in Puerto Ayora.
This is the fish market.
so it's covered in pelicans. And that guy. Let's not forget that guy.
This is so funny.
Getting very sidetracked on the way of the dive shop, but this is so cool.
This looks like a boob.
This is so strange. I like strange.
It's a strange little town, but I like it.
After a day of diving, we asked the local for the best restaurant. And he said Cafe
Del Mar. So, let's find out if he's right.
It's pretty good, isn't it?
Very good.
Facts.
It's 6:20 in the morning and we are getting ready to go to San Cristobal
on this lovely ferry that you can't see yet.
Narrowly balancing the bags on. Oh, there
goes mine. Great.
Okay. That all took about twice as long as I expected it to, but I didn't
puke, so.
That's winning.
Boobies. Lots of boobies.
Iguanas, boobies, sea lions, pelicano, crabs.
Oh, my God. I don't know what happened, but I have been nauseous for like three days.
I don't think it's something I ate anymore at this point. I'm like dying though. I've
never experienced this before, not since I was like eight. I have to pick up the group
today to start our tour and I'm just like... Lot of extreme ups and downs related to this trip.