Santa Cruz Island
Every week we meet new guests on the Polaris and make new friends. They will be close to our hearts for a long time, and they will surely keep the Galapagos Islands deep in their hearts forever. Especially if they are in their first years of life, just starting to open their feelings to the world. Last week we had four young girls Camille, Emily, Julie and Julia and two very young boys, Nathaniel and Mike with us on Polaris. This week we have 16 young people on board, ranging in ages from 6 to 17 years. These kids and their families are having the trip of a lifetime. The children often “adopt” some of the cutest creatures we see: the hatching tortoises at the research station. These are certainly the most representative of all the Galapagos species.
The Polaris has also made an adoption. We have adopted one of the islands in the Galapagos: Santiago or San Salvador. It is a huge island, with different vegetation zones and with many salvageable species. When Polaris came to the Galapagos, more than five years ago, Lindblad Expeditions decided to show to the world that our visitors do care for the future of this unique and enchanted place. Every week more and more people join the Galapagos Conservation Fund and support numerous programs in the archipelago. We also support several projects going on at Santiago.
Santiago has a unique race of tortoise. The National Park Service and the Charles Darwin Research Station have a few corrals where they raise the little tortoises until they are five years old. That is the age when they send them back to their home islands. So our youngest guests often become “Friends of Galapagos” and through it, they feel like adopting the baby tortoises from that island. Julie Kucharski named number 16 Joanna, Emily Locke named number 6 Taylor and Julia Galliher named number 15 Fedrick.
They hatched in 2001. In 2006 they will see their home island thanks to you, friends of the Galapagos!
Every week we meet new guests on the Polaris and make new friends. They will be close to our hearts for a long time, and they will surely keep the Galapagos Islands deep in their hearts forever. Especially if they are in their first years of life, just starting to open their feelings to the world. Last week we had four young girls Camille, Emily, Julie and Julia and two very young boys, Nathaniel and Mike with us on Polaris. This week we have 16 young people on board, ranging in ages from 6 to 17 years. These kids and their families are having the trip of a lifetime. The children often “adopt” some of the cutest creatures we see: the hatching tortoises at the research station. These are certainly the most representative of all the Galapagos species.
The Polaris has also made an adoption. We have adopted one of the islands in the Galapagos: Santiago or San Salvador. It is a huge island, with different vegetation zones and with many salvageable species. When Polaris came to the Galapagos, more than five years ago, Lindblad Expeditions decided to show to the world that our visitors do care for the future of this unique and enchanted place. Every week more and more people join the Galapagos Conservation Fund and support numerous programs in the archipelago. We also support several projects going on at Santiago.
Santiago has a unique race of tortoise. The National Park Service and the Charles Darwin Research Station have a few corrals where they raise the little tortoises until they are five years old. That is the age when they send them back to their home islands. So our youngest guests often become “Friends of Galapagos” and through it, they feel like adopting the baby tortoises from that island. Julie Kucharski named number 16 Joanna, Emily Locke named number 6 Taylor and Julia Galliher named number 15 Fedrick.
They hatched in 2001. In 2006 they will see their home island thanks to you, friends of the Galapagos!
