We left for Santa Cruz via boat at 6am (we got to see the sun rise). It was sad to leave Isabela. After a two hour boat ride, we arrived at Santa Cruz. We returned to the hotel that we stayed at the last time we were on Santa Cruz. We asked the hotel owner if she had suggestions about what to do that day and also if there were any tours available. She suggested going to El Garrapatero, a beach where we could kayak. Javier (I think that was his name) helped us get a taxi and gave the taxi directions. He also helped us book a tour to some other islands for the next day. We decided to take a taxi partway and bike partway (to and from). We kayaked for one hour. It was pretty fun. Alexis flipped. When we walked back down the trail from the beach, there were so many hornets/wasps. I have never seen so many in my life. We ended up running down part of the path to avoid them. They kept getting into the taxi too. I wish I had the whole scene on video. It was pretty funny. That night we got margaritas and some pizza with capers and anchovies. A women was selling chocolate right in front of the pizza place. I bought a chocolate turtle with a passion fruit filling. Afterwards, we went to the artisan market to get some souvenirs.
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