OBSERVATION PROBABILITIES

Pelicans, blue footed booby, manta rays, lizards, marine iguanas, sea turtles, variety of tropical fish, rays, sea lions, lobsters, octopuses, seahorses, frigates, penguins, lava herons, white tip shark.

ITINERARY

All passengers must arrive at the agency at 8:00 in the morning, where we will prepare everyone with snorkeling equipment, which includes a short wetsuit, fins and a mask and snorkel.

At 8:30 a.m., we will go to our first point of visit, the “Arnaldo Tupiza” Turtle Breeding Center.

The Isabela Turtle Breeding Center is located 1.5 km from Puerto Villamil, in this Breeding Center Galapagos from the populations of Isabela Sur (Sierra Negra and Cerro Azul Volcanoes) are being reproduced in captivity: Cazuela, Cinco Hills, Roca Unión, San Pedro, Tablas and Cerro Paloma. The turtles feed three times a week, calculating their diet on otoy and cachimuela plants. The water is taken from small artificial lagoons that exist within the corrals. The Breeding Center also has beautiful gardens made up of native plants, such as manzanillo, carob, prickly pears, palo santo, cat's claw, hawthorn, chala, horse's knee, cotton, milky, veryuyo, rooster's spur, myrtle, chililica and Galapagos daisy.

La Poza Escondida is a stone and wood path where the main attraction is the mangrove forest and at the end of it you can see a pool, the flamingo pool. We will rest in this area for a few moments to do the bird watching activity. . , in this case specifically flamingos, it is also possible different endemic birds and species typical of the area.

Once our activities in these places are completed, we head to the bay of Puerto Villamil, we will board our water transport, in this case the kayak, and we will paddle to the Tintoreras. During the journey it is possible to see frigates, pelicans, blue-footed boobies, lava gulls, sea ​​lions, sea turtles, marine iguanas.

Bordering the rocks of the site it is possible to see the famous Galapagos penguins, at all times our naturalist guide will explain to us about the site and all the species in the area, then we will rest and do our snorkeling activity around Tintoreras, here we can see a diversity of fish . tropical, rays, turtles, sea lions, marine iguanas, octopuses, prawns, white tip shark, black tip shark.

Once our activities were completed, we boarded our kayak to begin our return to Puerto Villamil.

The return to the port is at approximately 12:30 p.m. depending on ocean conditions.

CONDITIONS

*This itinerary is subject to change at the discretion of the Galapagos National Park and your naturalist guide. In certain cases, depending on ocean conditions. We take security seriously and always strive to provide you with the best and safest experience.

*In light of the pandemic, we will implement strict cleaning policies. Each piece of equipment will be fully sanitized between uses, and the agency and boat will be cleaned daily. Hand sanitizer will be available at all times.