Getting around the islands in taxis

We left Santa Maria after a hearty cooked breakfast bound for Isla Isabella and motor sailed past Isla Tortuga on route. This is the huge broken semi circular rim of a sunken volcano. Inside the rim, schools of tuna were turning the deep blue ocean the colour of a shallow lagoon by tilting their silvery sides to the sun. Boobies soared and dived on bait near the surging cliffs and frigate birds pursued them for their quarry. On Isabella, Porto Villamil is a beautiful anchorage protected from the south-east by a curved rocky spur that harbours a large shallow lagoon with fishing boats and, for once, no other tourist boats. The Port Capitan came out to us in his panga for the signing-in formalities. We dinned ashore on delicious seafood in a restaurant where a BBC film crew were having a debriefing dinner after there time here filming a nature series. A 12yo had won the presenters part. We also got talking to a couple of vetenary assistants who were working for Nature Balance’s spaying and neutering program in the islands. We arranged to accompany them on a boat tour the next day to Cabo Rosa.