Back to the Galapagos ...

We toured the Centro de Interpretacion San Cristobal Parque Nacional.  Our guide, Pauline, gave a very informative tour of the center.   We had a chance to walk around this area, then took a bus back into the town.     Here are a few photos from our walk at the center.    More photos to come from the town of San Cristobal.

Main entrance to the interpretive center.  Lots of mo-peds for transportation on the island.

Galapagos Cotton

Giant Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.)

 This plant (Galapagos Cotton) gets its name from the oval seeds.  They break open to produce something like white lint (cotton) and the guide book says this is used by finches and other small birds for nest lining.

I loved the fungus growing on this tree, couldn't resist a quick photo of it.















For those who care:  I just learned how to use Lightroom to make my photos web friendly.   So far so good.  Quick & easy (at least compared to the way I was doing it).   I had read that it was possible, but wasn't figuring it out, then thanks to a tutorial from Julianne Kost (Photoshop guru), it's happening!