Galapagos Sky Dancer
ITINERARY DAY BY DAY
8 days / 7 nights
Sunday to Sunday
Day 1
San Cristobal Island / Isla Lobos
Upon arrival to Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristobal, the crew of the Sky Dancer meets you at the airport and escorts you to your dive live-aboard. After the initial briefing, there is a mandatory check-out dive at Isla Lobos where you encounter sea lions.
At sunset, you circumnavigate Kicker Rock (Leon Dormido), a vertical tuff cone formation that abruptly juts up almost 500 feet out of the ocean. Here you see blue-footed boobies, masked boobies and magnificent frigatebirds on the cliffs.
Day 2
Seymour Island / Bartolome Island
In the south side of Seymour Island and no deeper than 50 feet deep, the northern channel is superb. It features an enormous “field” of garden eels, stingrays, a school of spotted eagle rays, white tipped reef sharks, and thick schools of grunts, snappers & goatfish.
To the North of Bartolome, Cousins is an interesting wall dive. Although visibility is just fair most of the year, you can find white tipped reef sharks, hammerhead sharks, sea lions hunting, fur seals, and many sleeping sea turtles.
A highlight is a resident school of up to 30 spotted eagle rays. If you are interested in macro photography, look for sea horses, frogfish, lobster, arrow crabs, cup coral, blue crabs, long nose hawk fish, coral hawk fish, nudibranchs, etc. A night dive here is possible.
Day 3
Wolf Island
Having reached the northern most islands of the archipelago, you will have the chance to discover why they are famous for some of the world’s most enviable dive sites. First thing, you will undertake one or two dives here at the rocky sites of Wolf: the Pinnacle, the Reef and the South Islet Channel offer three different dive sites.
Being careful of the strong currents (1-3 knots) you can station yourself on one of the rock faces and watch the marine life just float by, including a whole variety of fish including many more warm water species found nowhere else in the islands, including Schooling Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks, Manta Rays, Galapagos Sharks, Eagle Rays, Green Turtles, Sea Lions, Fur Seals and the immense Whale Shark. Depth 40-90 ft.
After lunch and a chance to relax on board, you will head out for two more dives near Wolf.
Day 4
Darwin Island
Having already reached the close-by rocky Darwin Island, you will enjoy two morning dives and two afternoon dives. At the northern most point, Darwin’s Northern Arch, schools of Hammerhead Sharks and groups of Bottle-Nose Dolphins often swim in clear view of divers, as well as Whale Sharks, giant Manta Rays, Green Sea Turtles and other similar inhabitants of Wolf. In Darwin Island the currents are also strong, with depths of 40 - 90 ft.