About 3,000 Galapagos Giant Tortoises live in the wild on the vast coffee and banana plantations in the highlands of Santa Cruise Islands. We had to hike a for a half hour to find this one having lunch in the high grasses of Cerro Mesa Plantation. I am not interested in describing the appearance of an entire tortoise. Instead I zoom in on the point of the image -- the taste of grass. It is believed that these reptiles can live up to 150 years in the wild. The most famous tortoise in the Galapagos, known as Lonesome George, died in captivity at Santa Cruz's Charles Darwin Research Center the day after we visited the center. (I did not photograph him because he was virtually obscured by the bushes in his pen.)