Whales!!!!!!!!

After a tip off from our friend Nick, we've headed to Puerto Lopez in Ecuador. It's quite a small town on the coast, but it promises to have a lovely beach nearby, and is also in the migration path of humpback whales, which hang around here from June to August apparently. We're travelling with our friends Kathryn and Sophie again (who we met a few months ago) which is really nice, we´re all enjoying being at the sea side!



So we got ourselves on a tour to the Isla de la Plata, which according to the guide book is like the poor man´s Galapagos (and we are indeed poor men). It has lots of weird looking birds on it that sit in the middle of the path and look indignantly at you.We also went snorkelling, where there are lots of cool brightly coloured fish just like in Finding Nemo!



By far the best bit though was the trip there (well apart from the fact that I got massively sea sick) where we found a group of about three whales. One of them in particular seemed to really like the attention, and just kept on jumping almost fully out of the water fairly close to us. It was so amazing! I was sooo excited! They are just so beautiful and we were so lucky to see them the way we did. A bit later we saw a couple more just flicking their tails in the air again and again. I don´t know why they put on such a show, but I´m so glad they did!





So anyway, the whales were incredible, and I´m quite sad to be leaving the beach, but never mind! We´re going to have plenty more beach time in Central America. We´re off to Quito now for around a week before flying to Costa Rica, where I can finally concentrate on my tan!