Hellish journey to Paradise

Had to get p early to get my flight to the galapagos! I think for the first time yet, i wasnt seruiously overcharged by the taxi driver.
At the airport luckily was very early as had a lot of trouble actually trying to check in! Finally flew to Guyaquil and then to the galapagos.. luckily the plane was pretty empty so had a row to myself.. Had the pleasure to discover ecuadorian aeroplane food.. which is basically 2 pices of letuce and some onion, and a few hours later i landed!
I had to pay $100 to get into the National park.. which i think should have been included in what i payed real gap!
Anyway.. the island was so beautiful..(baltra) that i completely forgot about my luggage and just got on the bus to start my journey to Isabella. Luckily just as the bus was about to leave i remembered and grabbed my luggage!
After a 10 minute bus ride, got a boat over to santa cruise.. its only about 20 meters.. but still had to pay a bloody dollar. When i got there.. they hadnt actually told me which boat to take to get to the other side of the island.. they had recommded a taxi.. so i thought.. what the hell..!
So i got in the taxi with this equadorean and we started chatting.. all very innocent.. me practising my spanish, and enjoying the trip..- Bloody Mistake and a half! Firstly as we were driving out the car park all the other drivers were giving him the thumbs up and winking... i thought this was probably because i was enough of a mug to take a taxi instead of a bus..
We started our drive along the one and only road across the island with no marked lanes.. and i realsed we were being over takedn by about 5 taxis is what i counted, and 3 buses! Then i started getting the questions.. so, in your country... at what age to girls get married.. in your country are you allowed different boyfriends, in your country.. do you have a boyfriend, do you prefer dark or light skinned men.... ETC! Very annoying.. and all this questioning lead to him managing to drive off the road slightly 3 times coz he couldnt keep his eyes on the road, and the journey took double the time it should have, and at the end he asked me out for an ice-cream!! Fantastic- i´d have preferred a discount!!! MEN!
Then the next adventure started.. the boat ride over... I first had a perv empty my bag looking for fresh fruit in my luggage.. and of course i had packed my underwear last, so that was an embarassment! then another guy just took my bag and legged it.. jusmped on a boat, and ponted at some woman and told me to pay to get to isabella.. another unexpected $30 each way!
I got my ticket and went for a walk.. unfortunatly no beach on santa cruz, so instead i looked arund the shops and stuff as i had an hour to kill. Saw some beautiful birds and crabs, but my bloody camera batttery was flat! TYPICAL!
Got a bit bored so headed back to the port... and departing with my luggage was the boat for isabella! Despite me being 15 minutes early! I almost had a heart attack! Luckily i then found out they were just parking the boat somewhere else.. away from shore till we were leaving. This is what annoyed me more than anything.. because i then had to PAY to get a taxi 5 meters across the water to get on the boat! I was absolutly FUMING!!
I finally got on the boat... and as its Latin America.. we ended up waiting for 40 minutes past departure time to leave.. we were waiting on some guys to come!
When they came.. i wanted to jump straight off the boat! 2 fat geezers got on.. one stood on the front and the drtiver was trying to get him off coz we couldnt leave till he got inside the boat!
Finally we set off out the harbour and the 400horse power engines kicked in and it was awesome.. over the waves.. defintly not a journey to be made by the faint of heart! BUT then.. one of the fat blokes just took the wheel, turned up the rap music so loud i coudnt hear myself think, and the other guy started reading porn! they were prancing around like they owned the boat, and must have been drunk coz they were swinging it side to side and acting like complete ARSES!.. what a journey.
After an hour and a half of hell... we arrived.
WOW.... isabela must mean paradise... there are perfect golden beaches which run for miles, coconut trees everywhere and crystal waters. Driving through the dirt tracks into the town which only as 1500 people was amazing.. people just lying in hammocks outside their houses.. relaxing.. its a fantastic place.. the next 4 weeks are going to be amazing!!!