back to galapagos page2005-06 Galapagos -Santa Cruz, San Cristobalshow thumbnails
Small giant tortoises in the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz island.
Giant Tortoises in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoise in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Edel and a young Giant Tortoise in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoises in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoise, Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoises quarreling in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoise in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoises quarreling in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoises in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant Tortoises in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Giant tortoises securing the survival of the spieces in the Charles Darwin research station..
(..I'm pretty sure there was a sign saying this cage was all males though..)
Saddleback Giant Tortoise in the Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz island, Galapagos.
Santa Cruz highlands.
One of the Los Gemelos, two pit craters in the Santa Cruz highlands, Galapagos.
Los Gemelos pit craters in the Santa Cruz island highlands, Galapagos.
Los Gemelos pit craters in the Santa Cruz island highlands, Galapagos.
Los Gemelos pit craters in the Santa Cruz island highlands, Galapagos.
Los Gemelos pit craters in the Santa Cruz island highlands, Galapagos.
The craters happend when a large area of unstable volcanic ground simply caved in (it's not craters from old eruptions).
Endemic Scalesia tree.
Los Gemelos pit craters in the Santa Cruz island highlands, Galapagos.
Scalesia forest (Scalesia is in the sunflower family apparently).
Lava tunnel (happens when a lava flow stops, and the outer "shell" of the flow has cooled faster and remain as a tunnel).
San Cristobal highlands.
Mist over one of the few freshwater lakes in Galapagos.
Lush vegetation near one of the few freshwater lakes in Galapagos, San Cristobal island highlands.
San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
Edel and Caren in the San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
Lake in the San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
Lake in the San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
San Cristobal island highlands, Galapagos.
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