Leandro Vaca a traveler that went for a day excursion to the coast of San Cristobal island in the Galapagos archipelago, made the hike to Cerro Brujo beach. His desire was to enjoy swimming with sea lions, colorful reef fish, sea turtles and even some white tiped reef shark.
He was prepared to capture pictures along the way as he expected to encounter marine iguanas, Darwin finches, flycatchers, mockingbirds, blue footed boobies and also herons throughout the path to the shore.
Little did he anticipate what he may find… a giant tortoise, not a marine turtle, but a giant land tortoise at the coastline going in to the sea. The legendary reptile was going in to the water for a dip, probably to cool off and refresh itself from the hot temperature, after all it's the warm season in the isles. The peaceful giant went into the ocean and swam around the bay before going back to land.Leandro was nice enough to take pictures and share them to the world – check them out on facebook:
It has for some time been a subject un answered to science, the way tortoises turned up at the archipelago, long believed to be unskilled to swim. Natureonce more provides us an answer to life's secrets…
