In the early hours the boat set sail south, taking us back to the east side of Isla Santa Cruz towards the small offshore Islas Plaza. We woke and got up to find ourselves in the narrow straight between the North Plaza and South Plaza islands. Here the main attractions were the colourful shrubs, swallow […]
Day 56 : Gal?pagos (Isla Santiago, Isla Bartolom?)
Again breakfast was at 7am and we headed out in the dinghies around 8am. The first island visit would take us to the volcanic lava flows of Isla Santiago but before this we skirted around Isla Bartolom? looking for signs of the Gal?pagos penguin. We were lucky and saw a few individuals, one still moulting […]
Day 55 : Gal?pagos (Cerro Drag?n on Isla Santa Cruz, Isla R?bida)
The view to Isla Santa Cruz Exploring the boat: the sun loungers Breakfast was at 7am and I was up before this having a good look around the boat and checking out the view. The nights travel had bought us around Isla Santa Cruz so we were now moored off the north western coast of […]
Day 54 : Quito to the Gal?pagos (Isla Baltra, Isla Santa Cruz)
Breakfast was eaten very early as we were leaving for the airport at 6:30am. We all assembled in the hotel reception along with another GAP group also heading out to the Galápagos. In our two vans we drove off and went through the process of having our bags checked, check in and then security. There […]