Santa Cruz Island
People are ready before disembarkation time, and our guests are eager to visit the head quarters of the Charles Darwin Research Station and National Park. They want to explore the highlands of the second largest island in the Galápagos and meet the famous and gigantic tortoises of the archipelago.
So we start early in the morning, Zodiac by Zodiac, everyone lands at the main dock of Puerto Ayora, and off we go to meet Lonesome George and the baby tortoises from Santiago Island, Lindblad adopted place in the Galápagos.
After visiting the Darwin center, our guests have the opportunity to wander through town. In the mean time, Celso Montalvo, one of our naturalists, pays a visit to Galo Plaza School and meets the thirty kids who also awoke early this morning with the excitement of his presentation.
Celso brings with him all the tools a naturalist uses while exploring the islands. He tells the kids about the use of VHF radios, Swiss knives, and the always needed first aid kits. Then he divides the groups in two: half of the classroom plays to be guides, the other half to be tourists. The topic is reef fish in the Galápagos. He has brought his own poster of a sea lion underwater, his personal gift to the school; he has pictures of different fish, and the students playing guides have to ask the ones playing visitors about their different characteristics. It was a gratifying and successful program again! These same kids will come on board in a couple of weeks to see the fish but from the glass bottom boat.
This Lindblad program makes a crucial contribution to education; it is our little grain to expose children to what’s really out there. Teachers do instruct of course, and use different tools and books, but it is only when you are there in the wild, face to face with the facts, that your brain can really make that connection that puts all knowledge together, and above all, that motivates for further learning.
Thanks Celso for visiting Galo Plaza School, thanks kids for being so attentive. Thanks to you visitors to the Galápagos, as it is because of you being here that we can have programs like this one, that slowly but surely, will make a difference.
People are ready before disembarkation time, and our guests are eager to visit the head quarters of the Charles Darwin Research Station and National Park. They want to explore the highlands of the second largest island in the Galápagos and meet the famous and gigantic tortoises of the archipelago.
So we start early in the morning, Zodiac by Zodiac, everyone lands at the main dock of Puerto Ayora, and off we go to meet Lonesome George and the baby tortoises from Santiago Island, Lindblad adopted place in the Galápagos.
After visiting the Darwin center, our guests have the opportunity to wander through town. In the mean time, Celso Montalvo, one of our naturalists, pays a visit to Galo Plaza School and meets the thirty kids who also awoke early this morning with the excitement of his presentation.
Celso brings with him all the tools a naturalist uses while exploring the islands. He tells the kids about the use of VHF radios, Swiss knives, and the always needed first aid kits. Then he divides the groups in two: half of the classroom plays to be guides, the other half to be tourists. The topic is reef fish in the Galápagos. He has brought his own poster of a sea lion underwater, his personal gift to the school; he has pictures of different fish, and the students playing guides have to ask the ones playing visitors about their different characteristics. It was a gratifying and successful program again! These same kids will come on board in a couple of weeks to see the fish but from the glass bottom boat.
This Lindblad program makes a crucial contribution to education; it is our little grain to expose children to what’s really out there. Teachers do instruct of course, and use different tools and books, but it is only when you are there in the wild, face to face with the facts, that your brain can really make that connection that puts all knowledge together, and above all, that motivates for further learning.
Thanks Celso for visiting Galo Plaza School, thanks kids for being so attentive. Thanks to you visitors to the Galápagos, as it is because of you being here that we can have programs like this one, that slowly but surely, will make a difference.
