Agape at the islands' mess

ONE of the collective nouns for iguanas is a mess.  

I realise why when I see messy tangles of iguanas sprawled along the beach on Santiago Island.

The collective noun for lizards is a lounge. It's a description I come to appreciate during my four-day cruise from Baltra to Santa Cruz, Santiago, Genovesa, North Seymour and San Cristobal islands.

There are few places in the world where collective nouns come in as handy as they do in the Galapagos Islands, which are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin with ideas that led to the formulation of the theory of evolution.

Read the full article from Sunday Herald Sun 21.10.2012 - Agape at the islands' mess