This morning we woke up at 4:45am to go to the highlands to watch la alba - the sunrise - at El junco which is the fresh water lagoon on San Cristobal. My host father woke up early with us to get us the taxi which was so awesome of him. Everyone met up outside my house to disembark and the most random people showed up from our group. It was awesome - I just had this thought that that would be a cool idea and made an announcement and it turned out that a handful of people were up for it. I stayed up til 2ish writing my 10 pager (how wonderful it is to be slammed with work the last few days in the Galapagos) which I guess I'll be finishing today and studying for my final. Then I went home, took a catnap and waited around for whoever to show up. Right before we took off, Elektra's mom wandered around the corner in the dark saying "Can I come?" ...that was pretty cute. Then we drove around for stragglers and picked up Aubrey and then took off towards El junco.
I love driving in the highlands at night. We're on virtually uninhabited islands, 400 miles away from the mainland, so you can only imagine what the stars look like. And I'm really going to miss riding in the back of a truck to get to wherever you can't walk to. From the distance you could see the sun starting to rise. We were pretty excited... As we got closer, though, it started getting really cloudy and by the time we got there we were pretty much standing inside of a cloud. Hahaha. Figures. We walked around for a bit, went to the water, Scott fell in, took some pictures, and headed back home. The ride back was even prettier, because you can see different high points of the island, the sun was still rising and it was still kind of cool out (80ish...) and you get a view of the whole coastal town. Bueno.
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