Day 1: Arrive in Baltra - Punta Carrion at Itabaca Channel
As you arrive to Baltra airport you will be met by an Aggressor representative and transferred to the boat. Your first activity will be a dive check at Punta Carrion at Itabaca Channel.
AM: Arrive at Baltra Airport, meeting the crew and bus transfer to the Dock (Muelle) and board.
PM: North East Coast of Baltra Island (orientation dive).
Day 2: Punta Carrion (Santa Cruz Island) - Bartolomé Summit - Pinnacle Rock
Punta Carion is often dived prior to the big steam north to Darwin and Wolf and so may represent your first real dive after your check out dive. This may be your introduction to some features of Galapagos diving such as rocky slopes where the boulder strewn reef is only occasionally interspersed with sandy patches. You will also see some almost ever-present creatures such as sea lions, creole fish and blue striped sea slugs.
Most famous for its view from land, Bartholomew also has a lot to offer below the sea: fascinating lava and rock formations, white- tip sharks, rays, palegic fish, reef fish, rays and turtles.
AM: Punta Carrion, Santa Cruz Island (1 dive) and Bartolome Point (1 dive).
PM: Bartolome Point (1 dive) and hike to Bartolome Summit.
Day 3: Darwin - Wolf
Serious divers will find some serious diving here! Wolf is bustling with the big stuff and lots of it! Schools of hammerheads and Galapagos sharks meet up with barracudas and moray eels to offer the diver a spectacular view with every bubble!
AM: Wolf Island (2 dives)
PM: Wolf Island (2 dives)
Wolf Island (1 night dive)
Day 4: Wolf Island
Often coined “the best dive site in the world”, Darwin Island is an underwater circus with stars like whale sharks, hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, pods of dolphins, and a few killer whales and tiger sharks making guest appearances!
January to May
AM: Darwin Island (2 dives)
PM: Wolf Island (2 dives)
June to December
AM: Darwin Island (2 dives)
PM: Darwin Island (2 dives)
Darwin Island (1 night dive)
Day 5: Cabo Marshall - Darwin - Wolf Island
A near-vertical wall of volcanic rock that plummets to the bottom of the sea, this dive site boasts the big stuff: manta rays, hammerheads, sun fish (Mola mola), and sometimes huge schools of the endemic salema.
January to May
AM: Cobo Marshall (2 dives)
PM: Cobo Marshall (2 dives)
Cobo Marshall (1 night dive)
June to December
AM: Wolf (2 dives)
PM: Wolf (2 dives)
Day 6: Cabo Douglas - Punta Vicente Roca
Located in the most nutrient rich waters of Galapagos, this drift dive is an amazing place for encountering marine iguanas, and penguins. Fur seals and sea lions mingle with the snacking marine iguanas and penguins.
Highlighting an enormous amount of the “small stuff”, Punta Vicente Roca offers up a sweet home to octopi, sea horses, red-lipped batfish, frogfish, and nudibranchs. The mola mola, or sun fish has been spotted here as well.
AM: Cabo Douglas (2 dives)
PM: Vicene Roca Point (2 dives)
Day 7: Cousins Rock - Highlands & Tortoise Reserve
Dive with eagle rays, jacks, sea lions, green turtles, barracudas, fur seals, king angel fish, snappers, puffer fish, groupers, marble rays, sting rays, creole fish, black coral.
In the afternoon the Galapagos Aggressor III will arrive at Itabaca Channel or Puerto Ayora. After lunch you will disembark and go ashore for a private bus tour to see the beautiful Highlands of Santa Cruz Island. This will include a scenic view over Santa Cruz and a Tortoise Reserve to see giant tortoises. After the hike, you can walk through town, shop and visit the tortoise-breeding centre Fausto Llerena at the Charles Darwin Research Station. Have dinner ashore at a local restaurant of your choice (only meal not included in the cruise).
The Galapagos Aggressor III will depart at 10 pm from Puerto Ayora town to Baltra.
AM: Cousins Rock (1 dive)
PM: Highlands of Santa Cruz Island
Day 8: Depart to the Baltra Airport
Guests will have a full breakfast then check out and depart to the Baltra Airport.
