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Travel Blogs from Santa Cruz Galapagos, Ecuador
Rain and Sunshine
This is a top pick! ... we stood on the jetty and watched the frigate birds, pelicans, boobies, eagle rays and sea lions. Tomorrow is our last day here in Santa Cruz before we head over to San Cristobal where we will stay for a few days before heading off on our liveaboard. I ...
Sunrise and Sea Lions
This is a top pick! ... , and we have finally paid all the money for our diving liveaboard and all seems good. So we are planning on staying here in Santa Cruz for another few days before going over to San Cristobal which is where our boat leaves from. If we can we will maybe ...
Week 3 - Frisky Tortoises and Shady Sharks....
This is a top pick! ... (by now I had resolved to take sea-sickness tablets) . We staggered onto the boat armed with enough sackfuls of goodies from Santa Cruz to sink it (e.g. tinned tomatoes- what luxury!). As a welcome home we were treated to a spectacular air display: a ...
Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! ... to have nature interacting with me in such a way. On our final day we took dingy ride at sunrise off the coast of Santa Cruz Island. It was beautiful watching the sun rise over the mangroves along the shore. We saw many Giant Sea Turtles, it is their ...
More Rain and Some Turtles
This is a top pick! ... on trees and rocks 16:45 Back on board After breakfast (except for Shari), we took the dinghies to Bachas Beach on Santa Cruz Island. Bachas Beach is known for where the pacific green turtles nest and lay their eggs, especially Nov-Feb. ...
Darth Vader Tortoise
This is a top pick! ... , a guy from Argentina, and us. We took a short bus ride, followed by a short ferry ride from Baltra Island to Santa Cruz Island and then took yet another bus to the south end of the island. Our first stop was Primicia Ranch, where we ...
Bye-Bye Galápagos
This is a top pick! ... the Galápagos Voyager at 7am, and transferred to the airport on Baltra Island with just a quick stop at the Twin Craters on Santa Cruz Island. Here it was time to say goodbye to our guide and check into our flight to Quito. Unfortunately ...
On the equator
This is a top pick! We are not too clever at contouring - after two days acclimatising to the 2,800 metres of Quito we flew to the Galapagos Islands and took up residence on the Motor Yacht Cachalote with Gill´s bunk actually under sea level. It is a lovely boat and we ...
Galápagos - The Enchanted Islands
This is a top pick! ... kept on our toes - and literally on the marked trails - by our knowledgeable naturalist guide, Diego. A thousand kilometres west of Ecuador, the Galápagos are a very isolated group of volcanic islands on the equator in the Pacific Ocean that have a ...
Dance-able Bingo and other short stories
This is a top pick! The other day I was chatted up by a 16 year old boy on the beach. The conversation went like this: Him: "Hi what are you doing?" Me: "Sun bathing and going for a swim" Him: "I am going swimming too, why don't we swim together. Do you have a ...
Islands in splendid isolation, teeming with life
This is a top pick! ... the vulnerable mounds of white sand that are turtle nests. At mid-morning, Spondylus cruised through the narrow channel between Baltra and Santa Cruz to Gordon Rocks. Vanessa, Rich, Jorge an I kitted up for a pre-lunch dive at this well-known site. ...
The Land That Time Forgot Part 1
This is a top pick! ... I noticed was the finches at the airport and after a couple of short rides we ended up in Puerto Aurora on Santa Cruz Island. The afternoon we spent at the Charles Darwin research centre looking at the Gigantic Tortoises from the different islands. In ...
The Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! ... . We got to see turtles on both dives too as well as the usual marine life. After over a week on Santa Cruz island we booked a cruise aboard a yacht which will be our home for the next week touring round the other islands (most of ...
Galápagos (Supplementary)
This is a top pick! As we sorted through our photos we couldn't resist posting a few more - with some explanatory notes (don't worry, we've still got literally hundreds in ...
Culture in the Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! ... one step away from Independence as well. So I managed to rob a boat from a load of pirates and off I sailed for the Galapagos islands. Arr. Scurvy. Went I landed I headed straight away to meet the President of the Galapagos who looked very much like a ...
8 day Galapagos Cruise
This is a top pick! Like I said before, I had no plans to go the Galapagos. But after shopping around with the English possy I found an offer I could not refuse. An 8 day cruise for 700 bucks! The English guys I was traveling with paid twice ...
Galapagos Day 1 - up at stupid o'clock again
Galapagos Day 1 Quito to Santa Cruz The tour people made us get up at 4am for a 4:30am departure for the airport. A bit harsh considering we were booked on a 7:40am flight to Guayaquil then Baltra in the Galapagos. Apparently it was to ...
The Galapagos Islands!
A flight to the Galapagos, then on to the yacht which would be my home for the next 7 ...
The Amazing Galapagos Islands
... visiting 5 islands (Floreana, Española, Caleta Tortuga Negra, Santa Fe, Islas Plazas, and of course the Charles Darwin Station on Santa Cruz) we spent a few days on Santa Cruz and just hung out for awhile and relaxed. Monday morning we flew back to the ...
Sleep, eat, adventure, eat, sleep.....
... put on a plane for Baltra Island in the Galapagos, where we were met again and transported across the island, ferried across to Santa Cruz Island, and bussed to Puerto Arroya where we hopped in rubber Zodiac boats and were shuttled out to our ...
Eight days in the Islands
... of natural selection or survival of the fittest. I could go on and on with entries this long for each day I spent in the Galapagos but my travels have continued and I must move on. The pictures will have to tell the rest of the ...
Giant Tortoise !!! South Plazas and Santa Cruz
... I am in a crib and getting rocked to sleep. We arrived at Puerto Ayora at the southern part of Santa Cruz Island where water is calm. Thank goodness. We visited the Charles Darwin Reaserch station and saw the breeding area for young ...
Guantanamera, juanita, Guantanamera
I arrived in the Galapagos and went straight to the main town on the Island of Santa Cruz. The town is called Puerto Ayora and the whole island has about 15,000 residents. I spent 2 days here scoping out the best deal I could find for a boat trip to ...
Galapagos Islands
Well we´re now into our final week having just got back from the Galapagos Islands which were amazing. we went snorkelling every day with sea lions and hundreds of tropical fish (and sharks!) and enjoyed walking around the islands and watching the ...
Frigate and Boobies
... As you know I am not often at a loss for words but if there were a time, this would be it. As the bus crossed Isla Santa Cruz, the words moonscape had to be on everyone's mind. The terrain was rocky and barren of anything green, except for cactus. Mindy ...
More boobies than you can poke a stick at
... some of the islands we went to, just to sound impressive: my trip started and finished in the town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz, but we also visited Espanola, Baltra, Genovesa, Lobos, Bartolome, South Plazas, Rabida and a wonderful snorkeling spot called ...
SO AWESOME!!!
... best because it often travels when you’re sleeping. If you were to do day trips from the most populated island (Santa Cruz), it would be impossible to get to some places because of time restrictions. The most common boat tours are 4, 5, ...
Galapagos Islands
... strange wonderful isolated world sits alone in the Pacific Ocean, six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador. The Galapagos define individuality. Each island has its own uniqueness, including landscape, flora and fauna, both land species ...
Las Montañas y Muchas Tortugas
Today we woke up early to head into the mountains with Rene to stay in his cabanas that he built on his own. We made a quick stop in town so I could sing happy birthday to my dad and sister, and so my professor could sing to her sister. The ride up to ...