Went back to diving today, with a sort-of-reasonable 7am start. We had a much larger group today, with a decidedly North and Central European bias: I was accompanied by a Swedish couple, a Latvian couple, a French engineer, a Belgian EU bureaucrat, and as the exception to the rule, a girl from Brazil (I assume, since she spoke the same kind of bastardized Portu-Spanish that I do, only a bit more fluently :-) )
We saw a lot of the familiar critters from the first day´s dive: white tips, one hammerhead, a couple of turtles, some sea lions... The coolest new animal sighting was a pair of HUGE manta rays that swam almost directly over us. I also did a bit of snorkeling between dives, and got company from two sea lions, one adult and one very young. The younger one was in a playful mood and nearly ran into me when it zoomed toward me, swimming upside down, and only turned away at the last possible moment. Got some photos of the two, hope they turned out ok.
The concert I thought was happening yesterday was actually only stage-building and sound checking. The actual concert was today, and was quite an interesting affair. From the announcements I gathered it´s about something called the "Corazons Azules" campaign, apparently sponsored by the Ecuadorian president. A bunch of artists got on stage to do one or two songs, some were pretty good but some also extremely cheesy. There was one modernized Elvis-lookalike who clearly faked his guitar solos on a background tape - the guitar wasn´t even plugged in! And two guys whose dance moves made Marco Bjurstrom seem positively heterosexual. It was also fun how between every song the artists would thank El Senor Presidente, El Comandante de Policia Nacional, and las figuras autorizadas. At one point they even had the local police commissioner get on stage in uniform and give a long speech. Muy rock´n´roll!
A bit of a shorter posting today, but the concert made me start late and the net cafe is about to close, plus I need to get some beauty sleep before tomorrow´s 7am. Tomorrow we´re diving Gordon Rocks, supposedly one of the best dive sites in Galapagos, so I want to be in top form.
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