Caught in the middle of this intrigue were Heinz and Margret Wittmer, and their son Harry,
who had emigrated to Floreana from Cologne in 1932.
Margret died in 2000, but a few of her descendants remain on the island
where they run the wonderfully secluded Pensión Wittmer guesthouse, as well as one of the leading
cruise companies in the Galápagos.
Floreana is still only home to around 100 permanent residents,
and if you stay a night or two at Pensión Wittmer it is easy to imagine the hardships suffered by the early settlers
and how dramatic intrigues could so easily develop.