Galapagos Islands: Puerto Ayora
Galapagos Islands - Summer 2018 - Episode #11
Between tours and adventures, the Town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island deserves a it’s own video. Here are some sights and sounds from the most populated town in the Galapagos!
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Logistics for Santa Cruz Island stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• Hostel North Seymour, Lobo Marino y Duncan N. 258, Puerto Ayora. 4 night stay for 2 people ($221.76 total, or $110.88 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay). Hotel North Seymour is a cash only location, so you pay when you arrive.
• Taxi from docks to hotel (10 min trip) = $2 (you can walk… I had broken luggage)
• Highlands Tour: we used a taxi which cost $45 for two people on a half day trip. This included stops at El Chato Tortoise Reserve, Los Gemelos (collapsed craters), and the Lava tunnels. The El Chato Tortoise ranch also cost $5 to enter.
• North Seymour Dive Trip with Eagle Ray Tours $230 each with Eagleray Tours ( Due to boat repairs, Eagle Ray Tours could not run the trip. They worked with Albatros Tours ( to make sure we got on another boat for the same tour.
• Bartolome Island Tour with Eagle Ray Tours ($235 each). Full day with land and snorkeling excursions.
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $55 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)…and maybe another $10 of other stuff like ice cream cones and the like.
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $45 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $737,88 (without ferries to and from the island)
Galapagos Islands: Bartolome Island
Galapagos Islands - Summer 2018 - Episode #10
Today we cruised from Santa Cruz to Bartolome Island, spending the day hiking up to the top of the volcanic island, snorkeling and wildlife watching. A little geology and a litter marine life… what more could you want! Enjoy!
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Logistics for Santa Cruz Island stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• Hostel North Seymour, Lobo Marino y Duncan N. 258, Puerto Ayora. 4 night stay for 2 people ($221.76 total, or $110.88 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay). Hotel North Seymour is a cash only location, so you pay when you arrive.
• Taxi from docks to hotel (10 min trip) = $2 (you can walk… I had broken luggage)
• Highlands Tour: we used a taxi which cost $45 for two people on a half day trip. This included stops at El Chato Tortoise Reserve, Los Gemelos (collapsed craters), and the Lava tunnels. The El Chato Tortoise ranch also cost $5 to enter.
• North Seymour Dive Trip with Eagle Ray Tours $230 each with Eagleray Tours ( Due to boat repairs, Eagle Ray Tours could not run the trip. They worked with Albatros Tours ( to make sure we got on another boat for the same tour.
• Bartolome Island Tour with Eagle Ray Tours ($235 each). Full day with land and snorkeling excursions.
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $55 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)…and maybe another $10 of other stuff like ice cream cones and the like.
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $45 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $737,88 (without ferries to and from the island)
Music from Epidemic Sound
Including: Splash of Color, Like Clockwork, Rhytmic Acoustic Guitar, Tay There, and Warm Thoughts
References:
Galapagos: Bartolome
Geology of the Galapagos
IUCN Red Lest
Re d List
Encyclopedia of Life
A Little bit of Paradise 2017 onboard M/C OceanSpray! Galapagos Island - Ecuador
Special edition for a nice girl I met by a beautiful coincidence !
Hope you like it Irina !!
Galapagos Islands: Santa Cruz and Lonesome George
Expedition Galapagos Islands: Santa Cruz and Lonesome George
Summer 2018 - Episode #7
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Logistics for Santa Cruz Island stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• Hostel North Seymour, Lobo Marino y Duncan N. 258, Puerto Ayora. 4 night stay for 2 people ($221.76 total, or $110.88 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay). Hotel North Seymour is a cash only location, so you pay when you arrive.
• Taxi from docks to hotel (10 min trip) = $2 (you can walk… I had broken luggage)
• Highlands Tour: we used a taxi which cost $45 for two people on a half day trip. This included stops at El Chato Tortoise Reserve, Los Gemelos (collapsed craters), and the Lava tunnels. The El Chato Tortoise ranch also cost $5 to enter.
• North Seymour Dive Trip with Eagle Ray Tours $230 each with Eagleray Tours ( Due to boat repairs, Eagle Ray Tours could not run the trip. They worked with Albatros Tours ( to make sure we got on another boat for the same tour.
• Bartolome Island Tour with Eagle Ray Tours ($235 each). Full day with land and snorkeling excursions.
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $55 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)…and maybe another $10 of other stuff like ice cream cones and the like.
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $45 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $737,88 (without ferries to and from the island)
• They are actually a species of prickly pear that have adapted this tall morphology to evade the giant tortoise, land iguanas that eat them.
References:
Lonesome George
galapagos/lonesome-george/
Charles Darwin Research Center
Prickly Pear Cactus
Galapagos Islands: Diving North Seymour
Galapagos Islands - Summer 2018 - Episode #9
On this episode we headed out on our second dive trip of the expedition! North Seymour is off the coast of the Island of Santa Cruz, and provided our first close up of sharks including white-tipped reef sharks and the Galapagos shark. More prominently displayed were a number of fish and invertebrates species from the local islands.
Check out the journey and keep exploring!
Thanks for watching! For those interested in the logistics and cost of this trip. Check out the information below.
Logistics for Santa Cruz Island stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• Hostel North Seymour, Lobo Marino y Duncan N. 258, Puerto Ayora. 4 night stay for 2 people ($221.76 total, or $110.88 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay). Hotel North Seymour is a cash only location, so you pay when you arrive.
• Taxi from docks to hotel (10 min trip) = $2 (you can walk… I had broken luggage)
• Highlands Tour: we used a taxi which cost $45 for two people on a half day trip. This included stops at El Chato Tortoise Reserve, Los Gemelos (collapsed craters), and the Lava tunnels. The El Chato Tortoise ranch also cost $5 to enter.
• North Seymour Dive Trip with Eagle Ray Tours $230 each with Eagleray Tours ( Due to boat repairs, Eagle Ray Tours could not run the trip. They worked with Albatros Tours ( to make sure we got on another boat for the same tour.
• Bartolome Island Tour with Eagle Ray Tours ($235 each). Full day with land and snorkeling excursions.
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $55 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)…and maybe another $10 of other stuff like ice cream cones and the like.
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $45 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $737,88 (without ferries to and from the island)
• They are actually a species of prickly pear that have adapted this tall morphology to evade the giant tortoise, land iguanas that eat them.
Galapgos Tales Simeone's photos around Puerto Ayora, Ecuador (m v darwin galapagos)
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Galapagos Islands: Volcanoes, Tortoises and Swimming Holes
Galapagos Islands - Summer 2018 - Episode #8
Today we visited the highlands of Santa Cruz and ended the day swimming in the blue pools of Las Grietas. Check out the journey and keep exploring!
Thanks for watching! For those interested in the logistics and cost of this trip. Check out the information below.
Logistics for Santa Cruz Island stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• Hostel North Seymour, Lobo Marino y Duncan N. 258, Puerto Ayora. 4 night stay for 2 people ($221.76 total, or $110.88 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay). Hotel North Seymour is a cash only location, so you pay when you arrive.
• Taxi from docks to hotel (10 min trip) = $2 (you can walk… I had broken luggage)
• Highlands Tour: we used a taxi which cost $45 for two people on a half day trip. This included stops at El Chato Tortoise Reserve, Los Gemelos (collapsed craters), and the Lava tunnels. The El Chato Tortoise ranch also cost $5 to enter.
• North Seymour Dive Trip with Eagle Ray Tours $230 each with Eagleray Tours ( Due to boat repairs, Eagle Ray Tours could not run the trip. They worked with Albatros Tours ( to make sure we got on another boat for the same tour.
• Bartolome Island Tour with Eagle Ray Tours ($235 each). Full day with land and snorkeling excursions.
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $55 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)…and maybe another $10 of other stuff like ice cream cones and the like.
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $45 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $737,88 (without ferries to and from the island)
• They are actually a species of prickly pear that have adapted this tall morphology to evade the giant tortoise, land iguanas that eat them.
World Landforms: Pit Craters
Galapagos Conservation Trust: Scalesia
Plants of the Galapagos
Galapagos Geology
EXPLORING THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
Highlights from our escape to the Galapagos Islands!
Featured Locations:
Salt Marsh (en route to Las Grietas)
Las Grietas
Playa Escondida (Hidden Beach)
Tortuga Bay
Playa el Garrapatero
Puerto Ayora Fish Market
El Chato Tortoise Reserve
North Seymour Dive (with Eagle Ray Tours)
Music
Tycho - Spectre (Bibio Remix)
Boom Jinx - Fermis Paradox
Galapagos.tv - Punta Carrion
Punta Carrion Galapagos
Kicker Rock day tour | True paradise | Galapagos Islands
Kicker Rock day tour from Santa Cruz to Kicker Rock near San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos. A stop over at the most beautiful beach we've ever seen!
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San Cristobal, Galápagos
Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal de San Cristobal
Islas Galápagos
Sea Lions and Spotted Eagle Rays playing in the afternoon sun of Santa Fe Island
Hope you enjoy the videos of our trip to the paradise of the Galapagos Islands. Truly the best destination to choose when going to Ecuador.
We choose to spend some days on Santa Cruz Island do-it-yourself style and afterwards going on a cruise to visit the beauty of the Southern Islands of the Galapagos: Plaza Sur, Santa Fe, Espanola and San Cristobal.
The first days we enjoyed Tortuga Bay and the tourist life of Puerto Ayora. Also we took a bay tour around Puerto Ayora and saw the giant Tortoises!
On first class yacht Galapagos Voyager (highly recommended) we first visited the Charles Darwin Research Station to get more insight in their conversation work.
After that we saw rich birdlife everywhere: Frigate Birds and Boobies (Blue-Footed and Nazca). Sea Lions greeting us everywhere and on the first islands plenty of Marine and Land Iguanas!
Santa Fe and Espanola Islands also have a rich marine life: Reef Sharks, Spotted Eagle Rays and Sea Turtles everywhere.
Snorkelling in the Galapagos December 2013
0 Bluechin Parrotfish
0.14 King Angelfish
0.17 Mexican Hogfish
0.25 Giant Hawkfish
0.32 Angelfish
0.35 Sea lion
0.37 Eagle Ray
1.05 SeaLion
1.10 Sea Lion cubs
1.25 Grey Heron fishing
1.41 Green Turtle
2.40 Fish / Turtle interaction
3.15 Zodiac
3.27 Shoal of Mullet?
3.34 Snorkler (NZ?)
3.37 Sponge ?
3.48 Bicolour? Parrotfish
3.56 worm
4.00 Razorbill Surgeonfish
4.05 on deck Xpedition
4.08 Dancing (FB, RW..)
4.18 Selfie
4.24 shoal of Surgeonfish
4.36 bull's-eye Pufferfish
4.54 Turtle (NZ?)
5.15 Surfacing Turtle
5.57 Zodiac
6.10 Kicker Rock ( Fel, Larry etc)
These shots were taken while snorkelling in the Galapagos in mid December 2013. I used a Fujifilm Finepix Xp60 £100 camera not expecting much of it, having seen other Youtube XP60 videos. But I was very pleased with the results. I made a conscious effort to hold the camera still but that was very difficult. I used wide angle as much as possible and the underwater setting. The weather was often overcast or the beach in shadow. I used no lights ( I was told not to). The camera didn't leak at all. The camera has a job focussing occasionally and the shots are very blue. Unfortunately I don't have software to correct that. This is just a small selection. We were on the Celebrity Xpedition which holds 95. A waterproof housing for my Lumix TZ30 would have cost almost 3 times as much as the XP60. I used windows Moviemaker to edit the footage.
Diving in Galapagos - North Seymour
This was a nice dive in North Seymour, we saw white tip reef sharks, sea lions, sting rays, snake eel, and lots of fish, what a great place to have fun.
Galapagos Islands Land Based Tour
In September 2016 I had the pleasure of undertaking a land-based adventure in the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Islands are a volcanic archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean 1000km off the coast of Ecuador, and are part of Ecuadorian territory. I visited three main islands: Santa Cruz, Floreana Island (nickname: hell on earth), and Isabella Island. I also did a couple scuba dives at Gordon Rocks, a dive site famous for Hammerhead sharks and extreme currents.
Some cool points in the video:
Beginning - Floreana Island
Swimming with a sea lion and sea turtle - Floreana Island
Giant Tortoise at 00:52 – Isabella Island
Sea turtles, White tip shark, Eagle ray, Cactus on the beach (00:59 – 01:28) – Los Tuneles, Isabella Island
Marine Iguanas – Isabella Island (but you see them everywhere)
Scuba Diving – Gordon Rocks, off the coast of Santa Cruz
Hammerhead Sharks (around 02:00) – Gordon Rocks (poor visibility but incredible nonetheless)
Sea lion near end of video (around 02:30) – Floreana Island (again, you see these guys everywhere)
Giant Tortoise at the end – Santa Cruz
Other cool animals I saw but not included in this video: Blue footed boobies, lava lizards, lava gulls, black tip sharks, sea horse, flamingos, dolphins, sally lightfoot crabs
For cool photos and more videos from the Galapagos Islands, be sure to subscribe and follow me on twitter @jetsetninja
Which animal is your favorite? Let me know in the comments below!
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Galapagos Islands: Los Tuneles
Galapagos Islands: Los Tuneles Tour
Summer 2018 - Episode #13
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Logistics for Isabella stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• El Paraiso de Isabela Hotel, Scalesia y Cormoran, Puerto Villamil Galapagos 200250. 4 nights stay for 2 people ($366.40 total, or $183.20 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay).
• Water taxi to the docks $1. Taxi from the docks to the hotel (5-10 min trip) was about $5. You can walk but the docks are a bit far from the hotel with luggage.
• Los Tunneles Tour: $145 each from Pahoehoe Galapagos Tours (5 hours)
• Volcano Sierra Negra Tour: $55 each from. Pahoehoe Galapagos Tours (5 hours)
• Tintoreras Tour: $55 each from Pahoehoe Galapagos tours (3 hours)
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $60 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $60 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $564.20 (without ferries to and from the island / with splitting the room)
Music from Epidemic sound
Galapagos Islands: Sea Lions, Flamingos, and Bicycles
Expedition Galapagos Islands: Isabella Island
Summer 2018 - Episode #12
Thanks for watching! For those interested in the logistics and cost of this trip. Check out the information below.
Logistics for Isabella stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• El Paraiso de Isabela Hotel, Scalesia y Cormoran, Puerto Villamil Galapagos 200250. 4 nights stay for 2 people ($366.40 total, or $183.20 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay).
• Water taxi to the docks $1. Taxi from the docks to the hotel (5-10 min trip) was about $5. You can walk but the docks are a bit far from the hotel with luggage.
• Los Tunneles Tour: $145 each from Pahoehoe Galapagos Tours (5 hours)
• Volcano Sierra Negra Tour: $55 each from. Pahoehoe Galapagos Tours (5 hours)
• Tintoreras Tour: $55 each from Pahoehoe Galapagos tours (3 hours)
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 3 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 1 lunches for $60 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas)
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $60 tipping on tours and restaurants.
• Ferries between Islands cost $30 one way. We booked our ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabella, and from Isabella back to Santa Cruz with Eagle Ray Tours. I recommend booking your ferry passage as soon as you can as they do fill up.
Total Cost for the Santa Cruz leg of the trip:
• $564.20 (without ferries to and from the island / with splitting the room)
Galapagos Islands travel: Kathy's slideshow of Santa Cruz
Kathy's slideshow of Santa Cruz Island only begins to show the beauty of our Galapagos Island exploration. Mountain Travel Sobek has done a great job so far. Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent arrangements. (5:00)
Real People having Real Fun! You can view this video & other travel videos in full screen near-DVD quality, slideshows & more, all with NO ADS, at jpmeyer.com. Mountain Travel Sobek (MTSobek.com) pioneered small group adventure travel in 1969. More than 100 adventure travel destinations, worldwide. Visit RomanoTravelOnline.com to arrange this adventure, or any of your other full service travel agent needs.
Underwater Galapagos - Sharks and Rays, Ecuador
This short Video was filmed while snorkeling of the shore of Isla Santa Fe in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Stars of the show are a White Tip Reef Shark, Eagle Ray and Spotted Ray.
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Pelican fishing in galapagos
Pelican fishing in galapagos