Sometimes our guests ask us if it isn't boring to see the same animals and landscapes over and over again. We say that the Galapagos always offers unexpected views, even to the naturalists.

Today our afternoon was completely unusual, as a little change in our itinerary took us to the island of North Seymour, in the central area of the archipelago. This island is extremely flat and has a small population of land iguanas. Shy as can be, they were moved in from their original home island, Baltra, in the 1930s. Over the years they never reproduced here, although the two islands are very similar in age, vegetation and shape.

Now this population has been moved back to Baltra, where they started to reproduce again, and only few are left on North Seymour. Well, a huge male was in sight as soon as we started our walk, and everybody had the chance for a picture like this…