Landfall at last in the beautiful island of Fatu-Iva. Fatu-Iva looks just like the lost world, tropical forest, mist covered mountain peaks, all that is missing are dinosaurs. We went ashore by dinghy in the village of Hanavave. It took a while to get our land legs back after 26 days at sea, it felt as though the land was moving. We were met by the local policeman who wanted to see our passports and asked if we had any rum. William and I walked up to the local w...

At 5pm on Tuesday 17th of March, we said goodbye to our guests on the swimming platform, pulled up the anchor and motored out of Wreck bay heading south. We had managed to re-provision much better than expected in Puerto Baquerizo. The market has a good selection of fresh produce and very good meat. There are several grocery stores and a small supermarket, which carry a good selection and are not too expensive. Bolivar, our agent, checked us out, he has been ve...

We took the ferry to Santa Cruz, a two hour crossing, landing at Admiralty bay. The town of Puerto Ayora is not as nice as Puerto Baquerizo on San Cristobel where we are anchored. We are very glad that we chose San Cristobel. Puerto Ayora is busy, very touristy and more expensive. Jim and Nancy caught the afternoon ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabela, William And I stayed overnight in Santa Cruz, going to Isabela next day. While in Santa Cruz we visited the Charles ...

We took a boat trip to Punta Pitt at the north east tip of San Cristobal. We saw all types of boobies, for which the Galapagos is famous, Nazca boobies, red footed boobies as well as blue footed boobies. We went snorkeling round the rocks at a small island off Punta Pitt. The water was clear but cold and the current quite strong. After this we went to Kicker rock. This is a huge rock, of volcanic tuff, rising out of the ocean, the shape of which resembles a shoe,...

Wreck Bay, San Cristobal, Galapagos. We arrived at The Galapagos at dawn on Monday 2nd March and sailed down the coast of Isla San Cristobal. A pod of dolphins joined us as a welcoming committee and swam at our bow. We anchored in Wreck bay, at the town of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, the administrative capital of the islands. Here we engaged an agent as is required to complete our check in procedure. This was quite a lengthy process involving a visit to the boat ...