Day Three - Galapagos Islands (Baltra/Isabela Island) March 20, 2017

Day Three for Joe and Ben was spent basically traveling.  They had a three hour delay on their flight from Quito to Baltra.  Once in Baltra, they took a boat to Isabela Island.  They arrived in the evening.
Ben says they had fun on the boat ride and they sang.  (They sent me video clips of them singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall.)

Joe's food

Isabela Island is the largest of the Galapagos Islands.  In 1959, the archipelago was declared a national park in order to protect the flora and fauna that Charles Darwin observed while formulating his theory of evolution.  Critical to his studies were the islands' iguanas, penguins, flightless cormorants and 13 species of finches, whose beak sizes and shapes provided invaluable insights into the process he called natural selection.  At the Charles Darwin Research Station, see the breeding center for the giant tortoises from which the islands took their name.  Discover the unique wildlif of neighboring islands on boat excursions.  Photo opportunities will be endless, but please remember that the islands' ecosystems are fragile.  Park regulations are designed to protect the area for future generations.