Please be at the Academy Bay Dive center at 6.55am for a 7am departure each day.

Return time approx 3pm

MON 20 - Floreana

TUES 21 - Santa Fe

WED 22 - North Seymour Canal & Mosquera

THUR 23  - Gordon Rocks

FRI 24 - Beagle & Daphne

SAT 25 - Seymour Point & Mosquera

Included each day 

- guide

- equipment with computer

- 2 dives

- snacks & lunch

- towels

- water

- photos and videos of the dive - you need to bring a USB or SD card in the afternoon to take the pictures.

Pick up from Hotel - Time to be confirmed.

Please take your bathers and towel. Swimming will be possible at the beach if time allows.

More than 200 scientists and volunteers are involved with research and conservation efforts, the most well known of which involves a captive breeding program for giant tortoises. It contains a national park information center, a baby tortoise house with incubators, and a walk through an adult tortoise enclosure. Lonesome George, is now stuffed in an exhibit also. Attempts were made to mate George with tortoises from nearby races, but rumour has it that a tortoise’s sexual organs atrophy with lack of use, and he had been alone a long time. 

Other attractions include a small enclosure containing several land iguanas and explanations concerning efforts to restore their populations on islands where they’ve been pushed the brink of extinction.

Departure: 6.30AM FROM Academy Bay Dive center

Travel Time: 2 hour speed boat ride from Puerto Ayora. 

The Tour: The morning will be spent with your guide around the town of Puerto Villamil visiting the Giant Tortoise Breeding Center where they are breeding 5 different species of tortoise from the different volcanoes on Isabela. The Flamingo lagoon and the nearby beaches covered in hundreds of marine iguanas are also on the list. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant, and then you will be shown back to the port to embark on the Bay Tour. During the afternoon you will be taken to Las Tintoreras, the home of the white tipped reef sharks, and a small bay where the Galapagos Penguins like to frequent. It is here that you will have time for snorkelling, though you will have to be quick to get a glimpse of the penguins underwater!!

Return: approx. 5.30pm. (there is a compulsory ENTRANCE fee of $5 charged by the local council for every passenger that is not included in the tour cost)

Includes: lunch, water, snorkel equipment (mask, snorkel and fins) wetsuits available at an extra charge.

Isabela is the largest of the islands in the archipelago and to many looks like a giant sea horse. Only a very small part is visited by tourists however, leaving a large amount as national park. The not so long ago eradication of feral goats on the islands was a huge project undertaken by the national park and other funding organisations. It involved the use of helicopters and “Judas” goats planted in the herds. Ask your guide how they managed to kill all the goats in such unfriendly terrain.

Pick up from hotel - time to be confirmed

You will go by bus into the Highlands of Santa Cruz where you will visit a farm that grows coffee and sugar cane and roasts their own coffee and make juice and alcohol from the sugar cane.

You will see the process and also be able to taste the final product!

Cero Mesa is the next farm that houses a Giant crater made by lava tunnels long ago, and also has the best lookout point on Santa Cruz. You can see from the Canal in the North to the town of Puerto Ayora in the south. You should also be able to make out the dive site Gordo Rocks right in front!

You will be pick up from your hotel 3 hours before your departure flight and transferred to the airport.