Galapagos Cruises - Cachalote Day By Day Itinerary
Sample Galapagos cruise itinerary
Day 1
Baltra airport - North Seymour Island
Arrive at Baltra airport in the Galapagos Islands after your flight from mainland Ecuador (Quito or Guayaquil). Your guide will recieve you at the airport and together you will transfer to your yacht the M/Y Cachalote.
North Seymour
Our first visit is at North Seymour, the largest colony of Magnificent Frigate birds is found here, as well as nesting Blue footed Bobbies and Swallow Tailed Gulls.
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Day 2
Santa Cruz Island
The Charles Darwin Station and headquaters of the Galapagos National Park may be visited at Puerto Ayora, the Islands´ most populated human settlement. The highlands offer the lush humid zone with its vegetation of Miconia bushed, Scalesia and inactive volcanic comes. Santa Cruz has more endemic plants than any other island in the Galapagos. The Galapagos tortoises can be seen in their natural habitat here.
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Day 3
Española Island
Punta Suarez offers he visitor quite a display if wildlife: Marine Iguanas with cooper red patches, Swallow Tailed Gulls, the endemic Long Billed Mocking bird, Finches ,Masked and Blue Footed Boobies, Oystercathers, Sea Lions anf Lava Lizards. This is the only island where the Waved Albatross is to be seen during the breeding season, April to December.
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Day 4
Floreana
At Point Cormorant we visit a Flamingo Lagoon where other species of shore birds may alos be seen. Snorkeling at Devil´s Crown, a submerged volcanic cone, and at Post office Bay, one may leave letters like whalers did in the 18th century in a wooden barrel mailbox.
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Day 5
Isabela: Urbina Bay and Punta Moreno
Urbina Bay: Here you will observe Flightless Cormorants, Brown Pelicans Large Marine Iguanas, Rays, Marine Turtles and Reamins pf a coral reef.
Punta Moreno: Main attractions are Backish water lagoons, Flamingos and White cheeked pintail ducks.
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Day 6
Fernandina Island : Punta Espinoza / Isabela Island : Tagus Cove
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 wold´s most active volcanoes.
Tagus Cove
is located on the Western side of Isabela and was once a favorite anchorage for whalers and pirates. A boat ride along the cliffs is taken to observe the Galapagos Penguin and the Flightless Cormorant
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Day 7
James Island: Puerto Egas and Bartolome
At 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 Flycatche. 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 potrayed than here. The most impressive volcanic scenery.
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Day 8
Turtle Cove / Baltra
In Turtle Cove you will find Mangroves, Golden Rays and White tipped Sharks.
Check out and transfer to the airport of Baltra for your flight back to mainland Ecuador.
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