Day 18- Final Real Day

The next day was our final real day. We started off the day by visiting the Darwin Center and touring the national park. We saw some wild iguanas sun bathing on the beach and got to take many good pictures. We then traveled along the park and visited the tortoise center where they are bred by the leaders of the organization. We saw baby tortoises and and young tortoises ready for the wild! However, some of them were kept in captivity. We saw many colorful iguanas in some of the exhibits as well. Later that day we walked far and wide, a mile and a half to the destination,  and visited one of the prettiest beaches on the island. We all hung out, took pretty pictures of each other and the landscape, and enjoyed the fun in the sun. It was a pretty relaxing cool down and wrap up to the trip as a whole. Let me just take a moment to break this happiness however, and exclaim a very important piece of news. The last of its kind in that species, lonesome George the tortoise, died today. It was very sad for all of us and impossible to bear. We got to see him earlier that day but we weren’t sure if that was he dead or alive. We felt very privileged to see him on his last hours. This pretty much concludes the trip! Tomorrow and the next day are purely travel days first back to Quito then back home to Houston! It’ll be so great to see everyone again!