The Galapagos Islands lie in the Pacific some 600 miles west of Ecuador directly on the equator. Perhaps best known as the “natural laboratory” for the great naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin whose studies on this archipelago led to his monumental work entitled “The Origin of Species”. So isolated are these volcanic islands that any creature that is able to reach them and survive is then “free” to adapt to this often harsh environment and go through changes to best serve its survivability. If it doesn’t adapt, it dies. Change can occur somewhat rapidly as is the case with some of the beaks of the Darwin Finches or over very long periods, millennia. This isolation has therefor created some of the most astonishingly beautifully and interesting creatures on earth.