Hammer Time

Hammer Time
I am sweating my butt off here in the Galapagos´ it is really hot when there is no wind. It is Sunday and everything is shut. We have been trying to spread our dives out since they are so damned expensive. We go every other day. So the day before yesterday we got together with Ann, from San Francisco, Rens and Marshel from Holland, Girl, me and Christian. We hired a cab at $30 to take us half way across the island to see lava caves. The cab driver acted as a guide but only spoke Spanish. Ann speaks Spanish so with her help i was able to pick up on a little of what we were seeing. There are these huge craters known a sink holes, i guess a couple years back 100 or 1000 as the lava moved under ground it would displace the dirt that supported the top layer and woosh it would collapse into itself, like digging a tunnel through the sand. There was one that was so deep that we could not see the bottom, Mashel timed it and i tossed in a rock and five seconds later we heard it hit, With my great math skills i calculated that the depth of that particular ´sink hole´ was hecka deep`. We also went to an area with wild, not so much running but, slowly moving giant land tortioses. They were really cool. Like little tanks moving through out the grass. They asked us not to touch them but you could walk right up and snap some pictures. It is mating season so we got to see that too.
Yesterday we went diving at Gordans Rock, which is a volcano crater, You would think it would be called Gordans rock(s) as there are five or six rocks above water, but once underwater you see that it is one big rock and what you see above the water is the sides of the crater. The currents can be strong and crazy down there, moving around in all different directions. We would descend down and hold onto the rocks and sort of sneak around corners and sneak up onto Hammer Head Sharks, Turtles, Manta Rays, Golden Rays, and good sized White Tipped Reef Sharks. I had a great vantage point for a big female Hammer head shark that went by and at one point during the dive i thought i was about to come face to face with a reef shark, but when he got some 15 feet away he quickly turned. The sea lions were out and about again. They would come right up to you and as you twisted and turned they would mimic you, blowing bubbles as you exhaled. Ann took off today so we all went out for pizza in the rain, and met up with a couple other people from our dive. Today we are looking into seeing if we can get to another island. We´ll dive maybe four more times, then i will be broke. We are going to head back to the mainland early, spend a few days in Quito, eat BBQed guini pig and call it a day.