Las Islas Encantadas
Charles Darwin wasnt impressed when in 1835 the Beagle arrived at her first landfall in the Galapagos Islands at San Cristbal (then Chatham Island), which was my starting point too. Nothing could be less inviting than the first appearance, he wrote. A broken field of black basaltic lava, thrown into the most rugged waves, and crossed by great fissures, is everywhere covered












