We started out with a zodiac ride to Santa Cruz, then a bus ride to Rancho El Manzanillo. Which is a big plot of private land where tortoises can hang out.

Our bus had to stop a couple times to let tortoises cross the road. I imagine a road is easier to walk on than grass, even as a tortoise.

A tortoise! They make dinosaur noises if you startle them. (oops)

There’s a lake/pond/body of water covered in a red and green water plant.

And tortoises hang out in it.

And there’s a restaurant and some tortoise shells. Jonny is in one, for scale.

In the afternoon, a walk around Plaza Sur

The island had a lot of land iguanas. Like this one.

They’re very colorful.

A sea lion. How do they get to these places?

And some baby marine iguanas that happened to be cuddling nearby.

Flomp! Naptime by the cliff.

Plaza Sur’s landscape features a lot of cacti and succulents.

And we needed a Pokeflute. Sleeping mommy and baby sea lions blocked our path.