It was a dark and stormy night…

Well, despite the odds, we all made it back to Guayaquil where we are stopping for a breather before continuing home. There were some rough seas for the last two nights. The first of the rough nights meant my humans didn’t get much sleep, which meant the next day they were more perplexed than usual. The second night included a broken window on the port bow, a note-worthy ingress of water, and a touch of excitement for passengers and crew alike.

In and amongst these exciting events, we visited Rabida and Santa Cruz. For your viewing pleasure:

**My humans were so preoccupied taking off their life jackets, they almost blundered into these sea lions**.

**The flamingos of Rabida. No, my humans have not played with the saturation levels of these images. The sand really is this post-apocalyptic maroon colour.**

My male human says these white-tipped sharks were at least three metres long. Possibly twelve. Apparently there are also intermittent and localised increases in water temperature as part of the usual deep-sea ocean currents. Furperson has his doubts.

When too many yellow-tail surgeon fish aren’t enough. My male human reports there were no variations in the water temperature during the making of this video.

So graceful, so balletic.

**And so generous. Seen here in San Christobel, sharing her bed with tired tourists.**

**No trip to Santa Cruz is complete without a staged photo of Furperson. Understandably, this giant tortoise decided to photo-bomb me. They can really move when motivated.**

Well, it’s been yet another jam-packed, fun-filled adventure with Furperson, so it’s time to turn our thoughts towards the next one. Furperson wants his humans to organise a flight on Elon Musk’s upcoming space-based vanity project, but they’re saying they need to use their Covid flight credits with a budget airline first. Stupid tight-arse-Tuesday humans.

A final, hot tip for my Furperson peeps: if my male human asks you if you want to see some photos, either look busy or fake chest pain because there are about two thousand slightly out-of-focus photos that Furperson has held back from being published in this blog.

You’re welcome.