The next morning we were up at 6 a.m. to see Española (Hood) Island at Punta Suarez. The guide for our group was Grace. Animals spotted: Sea lions, blue-footed boobies, red-headed (lava) lizards, mockingbirds, pink iguanas, Sally Lightfoot crabs, albatrosses, gulls, Nazca boobies, heron, Galápagos doves in the rocks on the path, and finches – […]

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Before lunch that same day we enjoyed a lecture by Richard Dawkins, “Responses to The God Delusion,” then one after lunch by Eddie Tabash, “The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms.” (I will summarize these in another post.) Then we landed at Punta Cormorant on the island of Floreana. The island had […]

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