Galapagos Cruise on the S/S BELUGA 7 Day

Friday: Baltra airport - North Seymour Island.

North Seymour: The largest colony of Magnificent Frigate birds is found here, as well as nesting Blue footed Bobbies and Swallow Tailed Gulls.

Saturday : Espanola:  Gardner Bay and Punta Suarez

Punta Suarez offers the visitor quite a display of wildlife: Marine Iguanas with copper red patches, Swallow Tailed Gulls, the endemic Long Billed Mocking bird, Finches, Masked and Blue Footed Boobies, Oystercatchers, Sea Lions and Lava Lizards. This is the only island where the Waved Albatross is to be seen during the breeding season, April to December.

Gardner Bay: located on the north eastern coast is an excellent swimming and snorkelling site.

Sunday : Floreana

At Point Cormorant we visit a Flamingo Lagoon where other species of shore birds may also be seen. Snorkelling at Devil´s Crown, a submerged volcanic cone.

At Post office Bay, one may leave letters like whalers did in the 18th century in a wooden barrel mailbox.

Monday: Santa Cruz: Charles Darwin Station and Highlands

The Charles Darwin research station is located in the town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island. A ten minute walk from the Center of town. 

At The Charles Darwin Research Station you'll learn first hand of the conservation and research efforts in the Galapagos islands. See the tortoise hatchlings and breeding programs which are saving several races of tortoises from extinction. Tour the Van Straelen Exhibit Hall. For most, this will be your only opportunity to see the giant Galapagos tortoises.

The Charles Darwin Research Station conducts and facilitates research in the Galapagos Islands and the Galapagos Marine Resources Reserve of Ecuador. The Darwin Station is part of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands, an international non-profit organization dedicated to scientific research in the Galapagos Islands since 1959.

Tuesday : Isabela: Elizabeth Bay and Punta Moreno

Elizabeth Bay: Here you will observe Flightless Cormorants, Brown Pelicans, Rays, Marine Turtles, Sea lions and Lava Herons. Also there is a large area of giant red Mangroves

Punta Moreno: Main attractions are Blackish water lagoons, Flamingos and White cheeked pintail ducks.

Wednesday : Fernandina / Isabela : Urvina Bay

At Punta Espinoza Flightless Cormorant, Pelicans, Sea Lions, Sally Light Foot Crabs and an abundance of Marine Iguanas can be seen along the shores of one of world´s most active volcanoes.

Urvina Bay: Here you can see Penguins, Noddy terns, Marine Iguanas and Historic grafffiti

Thursday : James Island: Puerto Egas and Bartolome

A t Puerto Egas you will see Galapagos Fur Seals in pools cut into lava cliffs and there is a good chance of spotting the Galapagos Hawk, the Galapagos Dove and Vermilion Flycatcher. Tucked behind Espumilla Beach are salt water lagoons where Flamingos and White Cheeked Pintail Ducks may be seen.

Bartolome: Nowhere else is the geological history of the Islands better portrayed than here. The most impressive volcanic scenery.

Friday : Black Turtle Cove / Baltra

Black Turtle Cove, a red mangrove lagoon on Santa Cruz , is a nursery for many sharks and rays. It is also a great location to observe mating sea turtles, after all the site takes its name for the black sea turtles that mate in these calm waters.

There are large groups of resting white-tip reef sharks, schools of golden rays and spotted eagle rays, and a few juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks and black-tip sharks. The water is nearly mirror-calm, and you often use paddles instead of the loud panga engines to move around the area.