end of galapagos volunteering

hola!
I have now done my second and last week of conservation volunteering in the Galapagos. It has been such fun and I will miss all the people I made friends with, particularly the people I have been sharing a room with this week. On the other hand it will be nice to have hot showers and be able to actually get things dry. It had been very damp this week so once something got wet it was very hard to dry it again.
We went back up last Monday but before that we went to a lovely beach. It was a nice sandy beach and had sea turtles and seas lions swimming in the water. We got really close to both of them. I borrowed a snorkel and mask off someone and saw them underwater. The turtle was eating and the sea lions were rubbing themselves agains the rocks. They were so cute! We are all silly and failed to put suncream on because it was raining when we set off but then it became sunny (well sunny spells) so we did manage to get a bit burnt. You would think that between 8 of us we would manage to notice but no!
On Monday I moved rooms again so I was sharing with 3 other girls (nellie who is 19 from america, becky who is 27 from america and sophie who is 22 from London). We all get on really well, which is nice. On Tuesday I went and picked some poison apple seeds and planted egg plants. We also squished some berries to get the seeds out. This is so that the seeds can be planted in the nursery. We went to the bar on Tuesday night and some people had a bit too much to drink. They were funny to watch but felt bad on wednesday morning. They all came in to our room at about 1 and then Alex ate all of Sophies pringles and then she got annoyed, it was amusing. Apart from I had to get up at 5.40 for breakfast duty the next morning! On Wednesday I worked in the nursery for the first time. We filled some bags woth soil and then mixed it in with chopped up banana tree stumps and compost. On Thursday morning we worked with the people from the national park. We went to thier nursery (a bit like a massive greenhouse). There we jsut filled bags with soil so that seeds could be planted in them. Right next to this is a tourist area. We got to go there once we had done our work. It was really interesting reading all the information boards and then we got to walk round the trail and saw lots of tortoises. They ranged from really cute ones that were only a few mothns old to ones that were really big and about 80 years old. We saw them eating and they were really funny!
I have made some fab friends in the last two weeks and it has been really interesting talking to people of all different ages and from all over the world.
I am now in port again and I have to be somewhere at 6.30 tomorrow morning to get a boat over to a different island. I am starting my 8 day cruise on Sunday so I the next time I update you will probably be the middle of july when I am back in Quito.
Adios! xxxxx