This rubber-booted cowboy (first picture below) in San Isidro, Ecuador, is about 15 yrs. Beef and dairy farming is important here. Corn is grown on steep hillsides. Behind him is the central park with a few palms.

The children and some dogs and adults of San Isidro cool off in the shallow streams (second picture) that circle the town, just below the open air bar called Safari.

The big herbs are castor oil beans.

The bar has a small collection of pre-Columbian native ceramics and some rare stone artifacts. The owners have an even better collection at home and were good to show me.

The Galapagos turtle named 'Miguelito' (third picture) by the people of Bahia on the coast, was brought from the Islands many many years ago and in 2008 he turned 100.

The small and beautiful river and seaside city of Bahia does not have a zoo so this big guy lives in a public school where he eats the grass of the garden and is protected behind cement walls.

Many people visit Bahia not knowing what they missed. Ask about him.

His dung is a big as an elephant's.

To visit Galapagos Islands can be very expensive with hotels, tourist tax, flight, etc . I skipped that.

Bahia has cliffs of marine clay a big busy market and a yacht club with expats.