Daphne Major and Minor Circumnavigation, Galapagos
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Daphne Major and Minor is two small islands just north of Santa Cruz Island in the archipelago Colon, commonly known as the Galápagos Islands. It consists of a tuff crater, devoid of trees, whose rim rises 120 metres above the sea. An intensive study of Darwin's Finches was conducted here by biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant over a period of 20 years. These two small islands provide visitors with their first panoramic view of the archipelago after landing in the airport at Baltra. Since visitation on the Daphne Major is limited to one scientific group per month, a measure enforced by the Galápagos National Park Service to prevent erosion, passengers with the opportunity to disembark there should consider themselves lucky to be among the select company that have passed across the island's impressive slopes. It is clear from the beginning of the visit-a landing that requires leaping from the moving dinghy onto a vertical cliff face and clambering up the rocks to the head of the steep, rocky trail-that a trip to Daphne Major is a special experience.
Daphne Minor is fairly eroded and not accessible to tourists, although the surrounding waters are very popular dive site. The underwater geology of Daphne is very interesting, with recesses and steep cliffs, and the possibility of seeing sharks (white-tipped, Galápagos, and occasionally hammerheads), sea turtles, or rays is high
Daphne Manor Galapagos Islands
Galapagos Islands
Bartolomé Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, South America
Bartolomé Island is a volcanic islet in the Galápagos Islands group. It is a volcanic islet just off the east coast of Santiago Island. It is one of the younger islands in the Galápagos archipelago. This island, and Sulivan Bay on Santiago island, are named after naturalist and lifelong friend of Charles Darwin, Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was a lieutenant aboard HMS Beagle. With a total land area of just 1.2 km², this island offers some of the most beautiful landscapes in the archipelago. The island consists of an extinct volcano and a variety of red, orange, green, and glistening black volcanic formations. Bartolomé has a volcanic cone that is easy to climb and provides great views of the other islands. Bartolomé is famous for its Pinnacle Rock, which is the distinctive characteristic of this island, and the most representative landmark of the Galápagos. It has two visitor sites. At the first one, one may swim and snorkel around Pinnacle Rock; the underwater world there is really impressive. Snorkelers are in the water with the penguins, marine turtles, white-tipped reef sharks, and other tropical fish. The bay is also an excellent place to go swimming. The twin bays are separated by a narrow isthmus. Galápagos penguins are frequently seen, and a small cave behind Pinnacle Rock houses a breeding colony. Seasonally, Bartolomé is the mating and nesting site for the green turtles. With herons, they make use of the gentler beaches. The Galápagos lava cacti colonize the new lava fields.
Bartolomé Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, South America
Bartolomé Island is a volcanic islet in the Galápagos Islands group. It is a volcanic islet just off the east coast of Santiago Island. It is one of the younger islands in the Galápagos archipelago. This island, and Sulivan Bay on Santiago island, are named after naturalist and lifelong friend of Charles Darwin, Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was a lieutenant aboard HMS Beagle. With a total land area of just 1.2 km², this island offers some of the most beautiful landscapes in the archipelago. The island consists of an extinct volcano and a variety of red, orange, green, and glistening black volcanic formations. Bartolomé has a volcanic cone that is easy to climb and provides great views of the other islands. Bartolomé is famous for its Pinnacle Rock, which is the distinctive characteristic of this island, and the most representative landmark of the Galápagos. It has two visitor sites. At the first one, one may swim and snorkel around Pinnacle Rock; the underwater world there is really impressive. Snorkelers are in the water with the penguins, marine turtles, white-tipped reef sharks, and other tropical fish. The bay is also an excellent place to go swimming. The twin bays are separated by a narrow isthmus. Galápagos penguins are frequently seen, and a small cave behind Pinnacle Rock houses a breeding colony. Seasonally, Bartolomé is the mating and nesting site for the green turtles. With herons, they make use of the gentler beaches. The Galápagos lava cacti colonize the new lava fields.
Diving Daphne Menor/Mosquera-Santa Cruz-Galapagos
Diving in these two spots. Had no filter for green water and visibility was very poor. Did everything I could with color correction.
SCUBA Diving at Beagle & Daphne, Galapagos Islands
Video courtesy of SCUBA Iguana. Dives at Beagle & Daphne Minor, from Santa Cruz Is, Galapagos, Ecuador.
Catch the sealion harassing the white tip reef shark at about 2'25!
Galapagos Island - Pinzon- Daphne- Bahia Borrero
Este Tour tiene comienzo a las 08:00am hasta las 16:30 pm.
Las actividades a realizar son:
3 snorkels
1 Avistamiento de aves (Modo panga ride)
1 Pesca Vivencial
INCLUYE
Almuerzo - snack - Fruta - En caso de pesca Sashimi y Carpacho Equipos Completos de Snorkel
Transporte.
Diving in Galapagos- Mosquera and Daphne Minor
18 May 2017 diving with Eagle Ray Tours. One of my favorites, watch till the end!
Video - shot and edited by me with GoPro Hero 5 Black
Music - I Lived by OneRepublic
Galapagos - Isla Daphne - Sea Lion
Diving Daphne Menor - Galápagos Islands
Highlights from a single dive off of Daphne Menor. Footage shot by Kirill Sokolovsky.
SANTA CRUZ ISLAND CHARLES DARWIN CENTER GALAPAGOS
SANTA CRUZ ISLAND CHARLES DARWIN CENTER GALAPAGOS
today we visited Santa Cruz island were we had the opportunity o visit the Charles Darwin research center. saw the following today
vegetarian finch
lava lizard
Galapagos fly catcher
giant tortoise both in the wild and centre
land iguana
painted locus
brown pelican
visited the sugar and coffee plantation farm
sugar beet
and an opportunity to walk around the El Chato 2 Ranch where wild giant tortoise wander through.
Santa Cruz Island (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈkɾus]) is one of the Galápagos Islands with an area of 986 km2 (381 sq mi) and a maximum altitude of 864 metres (2,835 ft). Situated in the center of the archipelago, Santa Cruz is the second largest island after Isabela.
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the largest living species of tortoise. Modern Galápagos tortoises can weigh up to 417 kg (919 lb).[22] Today, giant tortoises exist only on two remote archipelagos: the Galápagos 1000 km due west of Ecuador, and Aldabra in the Indian Ocean, 700 km east of Tanzania.
The tortoise is native to seven of the Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago about 1,000 km (620 mi) west of the Ecuadorian mainland. With lifespans in the wild of over 100 years, it is one of the longest-lived vertebrates. A captive individual lived at least 170 years. Spanish explorers, who discovered the islands in the 16th century, named them after the Spanish galápago, meaning tortoise.
Shell size and shape vary between populations. On islands with humid highlands, the tortoises are larger, with domed shells and short necks; on islands with dry lowlands, the tortoises are smaller, with saddleback shells and long necks. Charles Darwin's observations of these differences on the second voyage of the Beagle in 1835, contributed to the development of his theory of evolution
GALAPAGOS VLOGS | Part 1 | Quito, Daphne, Santiago + Rabida
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Diving at SANTA FE Island - Galápagos
A fantastic dive with Academy Bay divers just off the coast of Santa Fe Island in the Galápagos Islands.
Sealion at Daphne Menor, Galapagos
Galápagos Islands, Ecuador 2019
This summer we had a family vacation to the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador. This video shows the marine and land life that we saw, and no this is not all of it.
Some animals seen in this video are
- sea lions & fur seals
- sea turtle & land tortoise
- blue & red & Nazca footed boobies
- short-eared owl
- baby frigate bird
- marine iguanas
- Galápagos penguin
- white tip sharks
- stingray
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Isla Santa Fè, Galapagos-Ecuador
Tour diario a la Isla Santa fè, salida desde la isla Santa Cruz
Full snokel
Hora:8am -4pm
Santa Cruz / Pinzon Snorkeling, Galapagos
Island Espanola Galapagos
A pair of endemic Waved Albatross on courtship dance, island Floriana Galapagos Ecuador.
Galapagos - Isla Daphne- Fish
Dive 92 Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Daphne Menor - October 19, 2016