Please do not sit on the… iguanas
I keep on repeating this: the animals on the Galapagos Islands just never learned that they should be afraid for humans…
Which is great for us, so we can come up close to them, but sometimes it can be bad not to fear humans with "bad eyesight"…
You have to experience it before you believe it: the first Island we embarked on was "Isla Bachas". After some strolling around and seeing some flamingos and Galapagos marine iguanas, we wanted to sit down and take it all in…
Until the guide shouted: "don’t you sit there"!…
Because "there" looked like this:
Galapagos marine iguana not moving an inch…
One of us almost sat down straight on an iguana… warming up in the sun before diving back into the cold water. It’s true: a cold reptile doesn’t move that fast, but these iguanas… you can just sit next to them and they pretend you are not even there!
