Wild Tortoises

Not too far from where we stayed on Santa Cruz Island, we walked through some farmer’s field. They set it up so that tourists have permission, for a fee. It’s a natural tortoise migration area, for the male tortoises. They have sort of a migration route up and down the mountains. We saw maybe 20 tortoises in the hour or more that we wandered around the fields. I took some videos but these are just some still photos. Our guide said that these giants live to be about 500 years old, but thought that most of the ones in these photos were probably only about 100 years old.