Bartolome & San Salvador Islands
Galápagos is a place for soul mates. You perceive it everywhere, under the sea or on the trails. Blue-footed boobies show their feet to each other in courtship dances, frigates display their pouches while swallow-tailed gulls bring tiny rocks to each other. It is part of life on Earth, to find someone to share your experiences with. In this enchanted archipelago, like nowhere else, we, human beings, are very in tune with nature. It can be a friend, new or a lifetime buddy, it can be a partner, but sunsets and sunrises are enhanced by sharing with others, by the warmth of happiness in someone else’s face. Michael Faruolo and Katherine Fowlie brightened up our morning with their love and joy. Today, our captain Juan Robalino married them at sea, on board the National Geographic Polaris. At the end of the ceremony, the maid of honor read George Eliot’s following poem:
“What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen
each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow,
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in the
silent unspoken memories?”
Long live love; anyway you put it, it is about loving, and therefore living.
