Grace - Itinerary Beyond Darwin's Footsteps - 8 Days

BEYOND DARWIN`S FOOTSTEPS - 8 DAYS 

TUESDAY
Baltra Airport: Arrival and Transfer to the boat
P​M: ​Santa Cruz: Charles Darwin Station (HK)
WEDNESDAY
AM: ​Floreana Island: Post Office Bay (SN/HK)
PM: ​Floreana Island: Punta Cormorant, Champion or Devil’s Crown (SN/HK)
THURSDAY
AM: ​Espanola Island: Suarez Point (SN/HK)
PM: Espanola Island: Gardner Bay (SN/HK)
FRIDAY
AM: ​San Cristobal Island: Pitt Point (SN/HK)
PM: ​San Cristobal Island: Lobos Island & Kicker Rock (SN/HK)
SATURDAY
AM: ​Santa Fe Island (HK/SN)
PM: ​South Plazas Island (HK)
SUNDAY
AM: ​North Seymour Island (HK/SN)
PM: ​Santiago Island: Bartolome (HK/SN)
MONDAY
AM: Santiago Island: Chinese Hat (HK/SN)
PM: ​ Santa Cruz Island: Dragon Hill (HK)
TUESDAY
AM: ​Santa Cruz Island: Black Turtle Cove (HK)
Baltra: Transfer to the Airport

HK: HIKE / SN: ​SNORKEL / PR: PANGA RIDE / KY: KAYAK /  
PB: PADDLE BOARD 

DAY 1: TUESDAY
AM: BALTRA ISLAND / HIGHLANDS
You’ll need to rise early this morning to catch your flight to the Galapagos. For this itinerary you will be landing on the island of Baltra. After passing through Galapagos National Park inspection your National Park Guide will be there to greet you holding a sign with the name of your yacht on it and will accompany you on the short bus ride to the Itabaca channel.
Once we cross the Itabaca channel, we will visit Los Gemelos. The terrestrial world of the tortoise and underworld of the lava tubes meet at Los Gemelos (the twins). These two large sinkholes craters were formed by collapsed lava tubes. The contrast between the marine desert coast and verdant Lost World look of the highlands is most striking here and you can easily encounter rain even when sun is shining a half an hour away at the coast. Los Gemelos are surrounded by a Scalesia forest. Scalesia is endemic to Galapagos and many endemic and native species call the forest home. This is an excellent place to view some of Darwin’s famous finches along with the elusive and dazzling vermillion flycatcher.
A highlight of any trip to the archipelago is a visit to the Santa Cruz Highlands, where the sparse, dry coastal vegetation transitions to lush wet fields and forests overgrown with moss and lichens. Our afternoon destination is the Wild Tortoise Reserve where we will have chances to track and view these friendly ancient creatures in their natural setting. This extends to the adjacent pasturelands, where farmers give tortoise safe quarter in exchange for allowing paying visitors to see them.

PM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: PUERTO AYORA AND DARWIN STATION
We will then board your home while in Galapagos, the Grace Yacht. In the late afternoon, we can visit Puerto Ayora, home to both the Galapagos National Park Service Headquarters and Charles Darwin Research Station, the center of the great restorative efforts taking place in the park, and a UNESCO World
Heritage site. Here we visit the Giant Tortoise Breeding & Rearing Program run by the research station, which began by rescuing the remaining 14 tortoises on the island of Española in 1970.
This program has restored the population of animals there to over 1,000 today. You will see many of these animals, with their sweet ET necks and faces; from hatchlings to juveniles to large, distinguished individuals. This is where famed tortoise, Lonesome George, lived out his last days as the last of his particular race of tortoise.
We’ll enjoy our first Pacific sunset aboard the Grace yacht by celebrating happy hour atop her sky lounge where drinks are available daily along with hors d’oeuvres. A little later we gather in the main salon for a presentation by our guide on the next day’s activates and visitor sites, before sitting down to dinner. We spend a bit more time in port this evening before setting sail for the island of Floreana. 

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