travelling

I took a boat trip to the Isla de la Plata from Puerto Lopez - it was fantastic! Saw loads of seabirds, including blue-footed boobies, and marine green turtles. When I cycled to a beach close by I saw hundreds of tracks of turtle hatchlings, reminded me of 6 great, hot weeks when I volunteered at a beach in greece where we guarded nests, dug up old nests, counted eggs...
See, again? Happens all the time - tings remind me of other travels. And 90 % of the time its good memories so I like it ;). The hostel in Puerto Lopez was great, I had my own cabin in a beautiful garden, just across the beach. Went swimming, lazed around, ate invertebrates...ahem...yes....abandoned my vegetarianism for a week to eat shrimps & mussles. Muy rico!
Was kind of sad to leave, I could have stayed a bit longer, esp. as diving didn´t work out for organisational reasons. At least I could do some snorkeling.
Now I'm back in Quito an though I do enjoy having access to a book store (reading "black swan green" at the moment and love it), a veggie reaturant and everything I feel like every day I spent here is wasted.
So, tomorrow it´s off to Yasuni, the rainforest, the amazoian, the oriente. Off to a lodge, a tent, a canoe and loads od mosquitoes. Btw. I did manage to get preventive pills `gainst malaria in the end. I met a canadian couple in the hostel who´ll be doing the same thing, so we can go to the airport together ;). It always depends a lot on luck and good guides and patience to see stuff in the forest - so I hope we´ll have all of those.