From time to time, a sea current brings death to the Galapagos Islands. El Niño, a meteorological phenomenon which is becoming notorious all over the world, heats up the waters on the Pacific Coast and causes terrible death and destruction to animal species. But Galapagos is not dying. The arrival of El Niño is just a part of the ancient cycle of death and rebirth; a reminder of its genesis and a repetition on an infinitely smaller scale, of how life colonised these islands and transformed them into an earthly paradise.
