Galapagos Day 1

11/3/10 [Handwritten by Christopher and then transcribed by Jana]                 Today we flew to the Galapagos islands.  Dad and I noticed something we'd never seen before. A cactus on a tree trunk!  It was a prickly-pear cactus.  On the way to the hotel we stopped in many places.  We stopped in a lava tube that at the end is a place you crawl through.  My dad and I were the first ones of the lava tube by 5 minutes! We also stopped at a place to see all the tortoises.                 These tortoises are 500 lbs. But can get up to 700 lbs. There are two ways to tell if it's a male or female.  The length of the tail and the size.  The male is larger.  If a tortoise is old it has less wrinkles on its shell than if it is young.