Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos Islands is a bucket list scuba diving destination. They were the inspiration that led us to a completely new understanding of how species can radiate outwards and fill a wide variety of different niches. So, the name of the islands comes from the Spanish name for the endemic giant tortoises that inhabit the islands. The tortoises on each island have their own particular shell shape exclusively adapted for life on that particular island. Many of the creatures found here are found nowhere else in the world. The dive sites here is like no other place in the world. In addition, there are over 400 species of fish, 28 species of sharks, and 62 dive sites found here. Some species like the endemic cat shark may live over 1,200ft below the surface. This group of 18 main volcanic islands and hundreds of lesser islands and rocks are less than 4.2 million years old. Enjoy our blob articles: Diving With Whale Sharks or 110,000Reasons To Go Liveaboard or The Galapagos Islands: A Natural Selection for Divers.

Diving the Galapagos Islands

Wolf Island is the place to view large pelagic such as schools of hammerhead sharks and mantas. You may do your initial weight check dive with sea lions or fur seals. At Cabo Douglas off Fernandina Island you may be scuba diving with penguins and marine iguanas. Sea turtles, mantas, rays may be anywhere and everywhere on dive sites. Near Santa Cruz Island grouper, batfish, and seahorses hang out. The Galapagos Islands also has walls, caves and cleaning stations in channels to check out. San Cristobal is where the lobsters hang out as well as schools of fish and diving Nazca boobies. June through November is whale shark season.

Accommodations, Attractions, Activities

To visit The Arches and Wolf Island in the Galapagos Islands you have to visit by Liveaboard. Some inner island dive sites can be reached via day trips. Attractions include the Darwin Research Center where the adaptive radiation of tortoise species, iguanas, lizards may leave you spell bound. As for activities, you can snorkel with seals, hike a mountain ridge for a panoramic view, or take a photo next to a giant tortoise almost the size of a small car. In case you are wondering, the scientific research on Finches has continued. Recently on Daphne Major after a thirty-year long study they have seen large adaptive radiations due to a male cactus finch within as little as two generations and a new species of finch. These islands are still bringing new light to science. The Galapagos Islands are known as a World Heritage Site, a Whale Sanctuary, and a Top Dive Destination, among other things. Why should you dive here? Why WOULDN'T you dive here?

Diving Activities

• Drift Diving
• Great White/Hammerhead/Tiger Sharks
• Manta Rays
• Wall Diving
• Whale Migration

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Adventure Activities

• Hiking
• Kayaking
• Mountain Biking

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