Oh for heaven’s sake! I’ve misplaced my notebook with all my notes from the trip. I couldn’t find it this summer at the cottage, so I assumed it must be in Victoria. Now that we’re back in Victoria, I still can’t find it. I’ll have to look more carefully when we return to the cottage — there’s no way I would have thrown it out.
We spent some time in Quito and the Galápagos. I do still have all the photos, so I’ll post some and tell the stories behind them before our next vacation. Since we leave in three weeks, I’ll have to hurry!
By the way, our guide told us about the tortoise taken by Darwin in 1835 and subsequently named Harriet… but the guide did not know where Harriet ended up. We could fill in the blanks because we saw Harriet at the Australia Zoo in 2002 . The zookeepers there confirmed that this was Darwin’s Harriet at age ~171. I understand she has since died.
