Pete asked if the flower in my photo was a rose. You get to the Galapagos via the Ecuadorean mainland, and ecuador is huge exporter of flowers in general, but roses in particular. Mainly to Russia for some obscure reason.


pete asked if I saw a creature with marine and terrestrial parents. Oddly enough. In a way I did. Not that Pete would see this as evidence, or course, but marine iguanas only exist on the Galapgos and are only species of iguana that can tolerate that level of salt. Evolutionary thinking would suggest they must have come from the land iguanas which are much more like the iguanas found elsewhere in the world. So, yes, I would say it is very likely indeed I saw iguanas that were more salt tolerant than their parents.