Isla Gorgona

I wrote this blog already once & it disappeared on the internet highway. It was a good blog too. However, I am not the type of writer to pound it out again, especially when it is a long one at that. So here is the recap of the writing you never read.

I just returned from my Classroom Without Walls trip, which was to the Pacific Island of Gorgona. Gorgona is:

1) ...named after Gorgon, the sister of Medusa, from Greek Mythology who had snakes for hair.
2) ...loaded with 15 varieties of snakes (including an aggressive Boa Constrictor).
3) ...home to a natural shark birthing place.
4) ...a pit stop for whales migrating to wherever they go.
5) ...home to monkeys (cute) and rats (keep the snakes alive).
6) ...a 150,000 acres of untouched, natural wilderness that few people ever visit.
7) ...known as the Alcatraz in Colombia because is once housed a prison that only man ever escaped from only to brag about it to a former guard and was sent back.


I organized for forty students & two other sponsors to go there for a week for hiking, swimming, snorkeling, and diving. We had a blast & enjoyed ourselves. I would definitely go back. See the pictures above for a taste of Isla Gorgona.