Saturday, November 10th
Galapagos, Island Santa Cruz

Stayed at Hostel Darwin
(Day 8 at the Galapagos)

Dear Obiwan,
Oy vey I did not sleep to well last night. The whole Carlos drama and awaiting to find out if he pulls through, which I have ZERO confidence that he will, had me restless all night.

And what was your guess Obi about Carlos pulling through? Well my gut was right…Carlos was a NO SHOW. So after this the company paid Rene and 3 hours later, around 10:30 we were off to Gordon’s Rocks! Margaux, Itay, Tamara, and Ben dived twice and I had my SECOND DISCOVERY DIVE with Rene.

The big draw to Gordon’s Rocks for divers is that there are supposed to be HAMMERHEAD SHARKS. And the group all saw them! Itay said one got so close it made him jump…hammer heads look SO BIG. I saw one from the boat the other day heading to Bartolome! But, I did not see any on my dive.

Here is a video from the group dive with hammer heads!

The other thing about Gordon’s Rocks is that you have to have at least…10 dives I think? To dive because the current is VERY STRONG. As a result, my dive was a 5 minute boat ride away from the rocks by a reef! This time I was not as scared to get in and I could NOT WAIT!

The water today was colder than the last few days and the first part of the dive the visibility was poor and I only saw a few fish. After about 20 minutes trying to find anything…we suddenly saw a few sea lions…and then after we saw a few, more and more began to jump in the water…and eventually there were 7 SEA LIONS Obi! Just swimming with me! The sea lions are very smart and curious creatures so eventually they were swimming RIGHT IN MY FACE studying me and then playing with each other all around me! It was so surreal, I still can’t believe I swam with 7 sea lions!

Look! Here are pictures and videos from my second dive, as always, diving is very flattering:

After this amazing day we had our last night in Santa Cruz. I finally got the waffle with bananas and Nutella and chose chocolate gelato for the ice cream on top! I had this for dinner, it was phenomenal.

Then we headed to bed and were exciting to leave Santa Cruz tomorrow for the Island Isabela!

Love you my lamb,

Tu Madre, Carly