I generally try to avoid personal posts on this blog, but this one was too amazing an experience to leave out. In September I went on holiday to the Galapagos Islands (inspired by Darwin's Bicentenary). I have absolutely hours and hours and hours of footage, and obviously not enough time to go through it all - but the highlight of the trip, was probably an extremely serene afternoon chilling in a mangrove forest, and on the way back to our big boat, a surprise encounter with a pod of orcas - two or three times the size of our little dingy - oh and some sharks too!

The video below is not an edit of the whole trip, it is just what we saw on the afternoon of 9th September 2009.