Today we had breakfast at 8am, we had boiled eggs with that really nice bread and hot chocolate, mochas, coffee, mango and papaya. We really could get used to this!
After breakfast we went to see flamingos in their natural habitat, they were very pink.
Then we went to the tortoise breeding centre where we witnessed an educational display of tortoises playing 'leapfrog'. We saw tortoises of all ages, from 3 months to 100 years.
For lunch we went to a restaurant by the beach which specially opened for us as they would usually be closed on that day. They prepared a delicious meal of soup, fish and rice or vegetarian spaghetti. The views over the beach were amazing.
After lunch we went on a boat ride to Las Tintoreras, where we saw loads of sleeping white tip reef sharks and to our surprise there was also a turtle sleeping amongst them and we noticed its shell had a big dent in the side of its shell, which we assumed must have been caused by a boating accident, but don't worry guys it was swimming fine and let the Sharks know who was boss. Also on the island we saw lots of other wildlife including, marine iguanas, sea lions, lots of birds including blue footed boobies and penguins!
We then went snorkelling where we got to swim with hundreds of fish, starfish, marine igunanas, Eagle Ray's and the highlight of it all: TURTLES!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup we swam with turtles, so close that we could touch them, but we didn't because we're Girl Guides and we follow all the rules, which means staying at least 2 meters away from all the animals, but may have accidentally brushed a hand against a fin or two when we least expected them to appear.
After what may have been the most amazing experience of our lives, and was definitely the highlight for many people, we returned to Campo Duro for our last meal, before enjoying an amazing campfire and hot chocolate, in true Girlguiding style, singing all the camp fire songs we could remember, with an incredible view of the stars and the milky way, and may we say the stars were so incredible I can't even find any words to describe how beautiful they were.
That's Shona and Imogen signing off. BOOP!
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