The day before I flew to Galapagos I booked my flight and the schooner " Free Enterprice" . I really was lucky to get the seat for the flight and a cabin onboard,
happily alone due some cancellation. I soon found out that the company of 16 other passengers were extremely nice and pleasant people. I knew from beginning that the cruise will be most enjoyable. As it did! Our group consisted of Louis 69 and his goodlooking daughter Sarah 29, Australians from Melborne of Polish origin, Andy and Kelly 26 from Australia too, charming Susie 39 from Madrid, Spain with her friend Yves
from Geneva, Switzerland, very pretty Sandra 22 from Cork,Ireland, always happy Steffi 26, Martin and Reinhard from Cologne, Germany, Chris from Oregon, an English Canadian family of four from Houston, Texas USA and a french guy , whose names I just cannot remember. All very nice people. So Louis and I were the seniors, all others very young ones. During our cruise, which was partly sunny and partly cloudy we visited five islands like Santiago, Bartholomeo etc. were we saw those most strange land and sea iguanas with a maximum length of 1,20 meters, land and sea turtles some of age up to 160 years, snakes, lizards, birds, crabs and fishes like nowhere else. But maybe the most fantastic ones were the sea lions who did not mind, if we were sitting next to them on land and making pictures or who were most playful in the waters around and with us. We walked quite a lot, we did snorkel several times, and on my 68th birtday on last Monday we climbed a volcano of 114 m with 372 partly steep steps. I was very proud to manage it, just to stop a couple of times to take a deep breath. On the top we could then enjoy a beautiful view. On that evening the ship cook had baked for my honour a big birthday cake ( diameter about 40 cm and height 20 cm )with congratulations from the crew. We all ate with great passion, but we could finish only a half of it. The evening was a success with drinks, music and dance.
Earlier that day I tried to climb to dinghy , when a bigger wave casted me into water
my backbag became wet, and my camera which was inside did not work anymore.
I was very afraid that the memory card was damaged, but only two pictures were lost, like a camera shop in Quito could find out next day. However those sweet ladies Sandra, Sarah and Susie promised to send me later the copies of their videos or photos. In all , it was a very happy cruise with nice fellow passengers and friendly staff and partly excellent food.
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