We went to a beach where I swam with a large sea turtle.  The water was only 4 or 5 feet deep.  The turtle ignored my presence just a couple of feet away, as it dove to feed on the bottom, and surfaced to breathe.  I don’t do underwater photos, though, so no images for y’all of the turtle.  But there were iguanas and, of course, sea lions…

 

 

 

 

The Galapagos are famous for their finches, which were one of the species (actually they evolved into 13 species on the islands) that got Darwin thinking about why/how they had developed different beaks (adapting to the foods they were eating).  Also I find it rather amazing that a mating pair of finches somehow made it to these islands in the first place.  Recent “invasive species” aside, only animals that were blown 700 miles off course, or that could live for a long time drifting (perhaps on a downed tree) across in the current, live here.  Tortoises yes (they can go a long time without fresh water), frogs no (amphibians cannot last long without fresh water), for example.