Why Would Anyone Want to Visit the Galápagos Islands?
February 17, 2009.It’s the "slow season" for commercial California whitewater rafting, so it’s a great time to run away from the office. Upon return from my recent escape, a co-worker asked, “Why would you want to visit the Galápagos Islands? Aren’t they a bunch of barren, volcanic islands and you see the same wildlife over and over again?”
Interesting, I’d never heard that response before.
I suspect if one tires easily of swimming and snorkeling with playful sea lions, turtles, rays, eels, sharks, iguanas and countless fish, or if the 29 endemic species of birds, such as the Galápagos penguin and hawk, flightless cormorant, and the gray lava gull aren’t intriguing, then the Galápagos Archipelago might not be a place of interest. (Did I mention fields of wandering giant tortoises and the native populations of blue footed boobies, Nazca (masked) boobies, waved albatrosses, magnificent frigatebirds and brown pelicans?)
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