Our first stop at the Charles Darwin Research Center was the area with the baby giant tortoises. Some of the babies are quite tiny, about the size of the palm of your hand. It's hard to believe that that some of them will grow to be 500 pounds. From there we moved on to the area of the most famous giant tortoise in the world, Lonesome George. George was discovered years ago and it believed to be the only survivor of his sub-species. The search has been on for decades, hoping that a female from his species can be found so they can mate and prevent extinction of the species. We were not allowed to go into Lonesome George's area, but a camera crew were down there interviewing him.
We then went to a few different areas, view tortoises of various sizes -- some of them truly massive.
