Galapagos Day 9

Up at 6:50, breakfast, then did a wet landing on a beach on Floreana Island. Here we saw pink flamingos, sea turtle's nests and had some beach time. Cloudy and cool, but there were lots and lots of rays at the beach, you could stand in knee deep water, and they'd swim around you. They feel really weird when they touch your feet.Then did some snorkelling from the dinghy. COLD!! Lots of fish, great visibility. Our guide then took us to another snorkel spot, and told us we can swim only for 10 minutes. That's it, as soon as he says go, we go, but then get back into the boat within 10 minutes. I thought it was because the government puts restrictions on the times that boats can do things, but I later found out that our boat was not authorized to snorkel in that spot. But that was our guides favorite spot, so he wanted to take us there for a bit.We headed back to the boat and had lunch, then headed to Post Office Bay. This was setup by the whalers way back in the 18th century. Whalers heading out would leave messages in a barrel, whalers heading back to Europe would go through the letters and if there were any near where they lived, they would take them back.The tradition continues today. You're supposed to leave a postcard to yourself, and go through the postcards, and if there's any that are near you, you take them and hand deliver them to the person. I left a postcard to myself and also one to my parents, as they'd probably like that. I wonder how long it'll be before someone from Moose Jaw happens by the Galapagos Islands! We didn't find any exist postcards for Cagary that needed to be delivered.Also at Post Office Bay, the boat crews have setup a soccer pitch. Boat crews then play soccer against each other. Our boat lost. The Galapagos Gods shined on us while we were at the beach.Back to the boat at 2:00 and headed back to Puerto Ayora.After supper, went to town, used the internet, then we went to a pub for a few beers with everyone. It's our last night on the boat together.