The tortoises roam freely on this part of the island..... not quite a farm in the usual sense of the word!
We met a lot of them before we even got there.... on the small unpaved road.
Indeed it looked as though they wanted to leave and found the edge of the road preferable!
There were hundreds of them........
Some very large......
and we had to step off the path as there wasn't really room for both of us.....
At one point we heard a loud-ish noise and when asked what it was the guide took off at a fast pace and just said 'follow me'! We seemed to be going in the wrong direction but he was really just circling around. He explained that the noise we heard was a mating noise......but we didn't have to rush as the whole episode lasts about 6 hours!!
Going to the Charles Darwin Center afterwards paled in comparison!
But we did get to see baby tortoises......
We met a lot of them before we even got there.... on the small unpaved road.
Indeed it looked as though they wanted to leave and found the edge of the road preferable!
There were hundreds of them........
Some very large......
....... some not so large.....
they were everywhere.........
At one point we heard a loud-ish noise and when asked what it was the guide took off at a fast pace and just said 'follow me'! We seemed to be going in the wrong direction but he was really just circling around. He explained that the noise we heard was a mating noise......but we didn't have to rush as the whole episode lasts about 6 hours!!
Going to the Charles Darwin Center afterwards paled in comparison!
But we did get to see baby tortoises......
and some tortoises who seemed to be friends..........
and a friend who seemed to be exhausted....... 6 hours later maybe!!
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