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After the trials of ensuring that I had a seat, I was very pleased to sit down and read The Galapagos chapter in the Voyage of the Beagle<\/em>.\u00a0 What a rollercoaster of a chapter.\u00a0 If anything, it shows that Darwin hadn’t settled on the importance of the island radiation of plant and animals.\u00a0 He glossed over the finches, ‘not having enough room’ in the book to go into to much detail.\u00a0 And then, at the end of the chapter, he makes a statement that is profound, and ‘ahead of its time’.<\/p>\n

Darwin noted that the birds and many other animals had no fear of humans, and even in the 200 years since the inhabitants were first discovered, no significant advances in self preservation had developed.<\/p>\n

Darwin closes the chapter with a statement that it would be ‘awful if an invasive species got into the system, because the ‘aboriginal’ species would not recognise the threats.\u00a0 This is exactly why we have to go through the biosecurity measures we do to land on the islands….<\/p>\n

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My first sighting of the islands, as we dropped throught the cloud, on our final descent!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We landed on the island of Baltra at around 10.15.\u00a0 The island was quite arid, and covered in very scrubby vegetation, including cacti.<\/p>\n

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Arrival at immigration, on Baltra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We entered Baltra airport, and even though everything had been checked in Guayaquil, sniffer dogs were employed to run all over the luggage, to ensure that no foods, seeds, pests, anything that might harm the ecosystem had been taken into the Islands.<\/p>\n

All was well.\u00a0 We took a bus from Baltra airport to the canal between Baltra and our first destination, the Charles Darwin Research Station, and Santa Cruz Island.<\/p>\n

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Canal between Baltra and Santa Cruz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Herons were seen in the mangroves, as our funny little ‘river taxi’ chugged and rocked across narrow stretch of water, all of our bags precariously balanced in top of the boat……<\/p>\n

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