Farewell Dinner

After the final landing of our trip (on Santa Fé) we had to start packing for our early morning departure, but also we had our farewell meal to look forward to.
Richard, our hardworking steward, prepared the cocktails and set a special table, heightening our anticipation of the meal to come.

Before dinner, we made our grateful formal goodbyes to our fantastic, hard-working crew and to our official Galápagos guide.

Left to right: Richard, the Steward, Monica, Roberto, the Captain, José the chef and Pedro the Engineer. All of the crew and our guide were excellent, often doubling up rôles, to make sure we all enjoyed our trip.

Darwin the First Mate and Jorgé the sailor. Sorry, Darwin: this is a very poor likeness.

Peter, Carol and Alan enjoy a joke just before we all dive in to the buffet: main course - Slipper Lobster.

Observation: isn't it sad that when you scrunch a 14.1Mb pic into 24Kb for the web, it looks as if you'd taken it on a very cheap cellphone. :-(

Left to right: Monica, Martha, Margaret, Graham (sp?), Theresa, Dave and Dick.

Note: the 'smudge' behind Dick's head is me trying to cover up 'flash flare' on a glazed picture !

Having "got married" on the Equator, Theresa and Dave (you'll just have to take my word he was there too) were the obvious choices to cut the cake, with Roger and Judy looking on..
Good luck for your 'landlubber' wedding!