Day 1: Baltra

Guests fly to the Galapagos Islands from Mainland Ecuador, arriving in the late morning. The dive guides will meet the guests at the airport between 11:00 am and 12 pm and escort them to the vessel. Guests will board the vessel, have lunch, organize equipment, and listen to the safety briefings.

Day 2: Baltra North

Equipment check, 7:00 and 10:00 dives. Sightings include rays and schools of fish. Afternoon North Seymour land visit. Walk the path around North Seymour Island to see the large colonies of Blue Footed Boobies and Frigate Birds. Sighting of Sea Lions and Marine Iguanas is also common. Depart for Northern Islands (long transit). 

Days 3 - 10: Wolf Island, Darwin Island & Cousin's Rock

Activities include:

• Possible night dive.
• Sightings often include hammerheads, whale sharks (in season), red-lipped batfish, eagle rays, sea lions, Galapagos sharks, and silky sharks.
  Night anchor at Wolf Island.
• Transit to Darwin Island for a couple of dives, if possible.
• Long transit to Cousin’s Rock (20+ hours).
• Transit to Santa Cruz.
• Travel by bus to the Santa Cruz Highlands to visit the giant tortoises in their natural habitat.
• Visit the town of Puerto Ayora and the Darwin Centre on your own.
• Dinner on your own in Puerto Ayora.
• Return to the Humboldt Explorer at 8:30 pm.

Day 11: Baltra

Depart the vessel by 9 am. Transfer to the airport.

* The itinerary description is provided by the boat operator.

Your Galapagos Liveaboard diving adventures will encompass everything from sharks to nudibranchs and more. The islands are best known for amazing shark diving around Wolf and Darwin Islands. These small and remote islands are best reached by liveaboard vessels for divers. Your diving experience here will generally include Galapagos sharks, silky sharks, and lots of schooling hammerheads being cleaned by king angelfish. Seeing marine turtles, schools of tuna, eagle rays, and sea lions are very common, and seeing a whale shark is very possible from June through November. All the islands you travel to are amazing sites for underwater photography.

Macro photographers will have their fill of seahorses, barnacle blennies, coral hawkfish, and many others. An abundance of rays is at many of the dive sites (including spotted rays, marble rays, golden rays, and stingrays) along with sea lions, sea turtles, schools of grunts, and snappers. The variety of life in this water is unlike any other place, with thick schools of the native brown, stripped Salema, snappers, groupers, Chevron barracuda, and huge sea turtles.

The last dive will be on the last day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.

Sample itineraries and maps are for illustrative purposes only. The exact route and sites visited are subject to change based on local regulations, guest experience, weather, and logistics and are at the Captain's discretion.