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Lexington - Captain Bob: tour, Tuneles de lava



We did a tour today by boat. Over the past several years tourism has flourished and changed life in Galapagos for the locals. The people running our tour had been fishermen but they are now involved in the tour industry. Our naturalist had gone to South Africa to learn English for 3 months. He also had extra training in ecology, snorkeling, marine life and birds. Life on the islands is very controlled. Most of the land is a national park. The area of the cities is limited. The areas that tourist can be taken in limited and controlled as to numbers. All of this is in the efforts to control any adverse effect of tourism. It would be interesting to know how good a job they are able to do. I would think that at some time the government must have taken land from individuals. The islands were colonized early. I would be surprised that there were no owners with large claims to sections of land from this activity. As far as myself, I only wanted a small farm in down Atlanta.
We went to the Tuneless de lava area and did a little water tour thru areas of deep water (10-30 feet) mixed in with all kinds of lava. Then we got out of the boats to get a closer view of the lava and tunnels and wild life. We saw blue footed boobies, turtles, nasca boobies, sharks, cactus, mangroves,rays, I will send some photos.
First is the tuneless de lava area at a distance
Next Jerry and tunnels
Jim pointing out geology to Jerry which seems a waste of time
Pot belled whale
Blue footed boobies




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