Lifestyle
JOURNEYS
go wild with your camera
advantage of the cooler morning hours,
you’re up at 5:30am, eating breakfast at
6:30am and off the ship by 7:30am. Days
begin with an island hike that lasts two to
three hours. As you walk, snapping photo
after amazing photo of preening boobies,
sun-drunk sea lions, and love-sick male
Frigate birds with their red, swollen chests,
your guide provides a wealth of information. It’s like waking up to find yourself in
the middle of a Wild Kingdom episode. As
you walk, the sun pushes the temperature
higher and the humidity rises. Before long,
you’re a walking puddle, shirt and shorts
soaked through but strangely, you couldn’t
care less. The astonishing things you’re
seeing are well worth breaking a sweat.
There are many other places in the world
where you can see stunning wildlife – but
it’s almost always from a distance. In the Galapagos Islands, although there were clear
rules about keeping a six-foot gap between
us and the wildlife, it was apparent that the
wildlife hadn’t received the same memo.
No matter how scrupulous we were about
sticking to the well-marked pathways
on those isolated Galapagos Islands,
we were accosted by albatrosses, seduced by sea lions, and befriended by
boobies at every turn. Incredibly, the
beautiful creatures we’d come so far to
see were equally keen to see us.
IF YOU GO...
We flew from Toronto to Quito,
the capital city of Ecuador, for an
overnight stop, then went on to
Baltra the following day. At Baltra, we climbed aboard the Silver
Galapagos, a lovely expedition ship
that’s part of the Silversea fleet.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:
SILVERSEA.COM
LIZ FLEMING
IN ADDITION TO EDITING WO, LIZ FLEMING IS ALSO
THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF CRUISE & TRAVEL LIFESTYLES MAGAZINE
AND A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO THELOOP.CA, THE TORONTO STAR AND
TORONTO SUN. SHE’S THE AUTHOR OF TWO AMAZON EBOOKS
“SINCE YOU’RE HERE, WE MIGHT AS WELL SHAG” AND “207 TRAVEL TIPS
BECAUSE 101 JUST WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ENOUGH."
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