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And this is why the hotel is named Iguana Crossing!

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Setting out on mountain bikes to explore Isabela

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Iguana on the beach

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Braving the waves

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This beach had lots of iguana nests so we couldn't get too close for fear of stepping on one and crushing it.

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Females digging out their nests

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An enormous lava tube. Alicia and Suzanne heading in to check it out...

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Inside the lava tube...

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From the inside, looking out

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Biking around tortoises!

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Giselle, Salvador, and Bill

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Looking down on our bikes along the road from a beautiful vista

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El Muro de las Lagrimas (Wall of Tears) built by prisoners, when Isabela was a penal colony in the 1940s and 50s, for no other reason than to keep them occupied and not thinking of revolt or the desolate isolation of the island.

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(L-R): Tom, Alicia, Steve, Toby, Pam, Sandy, Suzanne, Giselle, Bill, and Salvador

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Returning to dry land

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Heading out to the rocks to warm up

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A short kayak in the mangroves of Concha y Perla Bay

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Tortuga in the distance