Day 8…Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…Disembarking day…Back up to Quito for two more nights!…
Note: our naturalist, Orlando, took all of today's photos, which he sent to me each day via WhatsApp. Thanks, Orlando, for thinking...
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Day 7…Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…Avian flu kills three birds in Galapagos….Tom stayed on the ship with me today…
In the past week on this ship, Celebrity Xploration, there were islands we didn't visit that may have been included in past...
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Day 6…Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…Charles Darwin’s influence on The Galapagos Islands…A reader writes, asking a valid question…
In yesterday's post, we mentioned we'd be sharing information about Charles Darwin and his impact on The Galapagos Islands, emblazoned in the...
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Day 5, Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…A funny post office…
Galapagos Facts: "Hunted as food by pirates, whalers, and traders from the 17th through the 19th centuries, between 100,000 and 200,000 Galápagos...
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Day 4…Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…The stunning photos continue…
The 14 passengers on this boat, plus Tom, are having a fantastic time going to the islands two or three times...
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Day 3…Celebrity Xploration…Our first night of seasickness ever, after 34 cruises…
A partial photo of a Galapagos Giant Tortoise.At about 7:50 last night, our boat took off for today's tour of Isabela Island,...
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Day 2…The Galapagos Islands…Celebrity Xploration…The staff, the ship, the food, the guests…amazing, along with the wildlife…The hard reality we’ve had to face…
Note: With this many photos today, the paragraph spacing is off and unable to be corrected. But, we thought the photos were...
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Photos from Tom’s city tour in Quito and a few from today’s journey to The Galapagos…
Note; There are too many photos and insufficient time for writing captions on all of them. Going forward, we will make every...
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Looking forward to sea level tomorrow…Tom went on the Quito city tour…I could not…
I am suffering from mild altitude sickness and am looking forward to flying to sea level tomorrow morning. My symptoms are typical;...
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We made it to Quito!…Time to adapt…
The two flights were easy and uneventful. We barely ate the meal served on the second flight from Houston to Quito. That...
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