Galapagos was our target since early 2013...
In June 2014, with only returning Dive and Cruise guests we organized it on board the MV Penguino Explorer which has just started his operation in 2013 but with an experienced crew and dive guides. We had the luck to have Mr. Macaron as the boat leader and this was a guarantee of success as he born there and knows everything on this amazing archipelago.
Before the cruise, from 14th until 17th June 2014, we've spent 3 days in Santa Cruz with some day trip adventure to the neighboring islands (2h/2h30 by speedboat...) of Isabella, San Cristobal and Floreana. Each of these places were just amazing with an amount of wolf life out of our thoughts. Birds species, lizards, turtles were abundant.
We stayed at hotel espana in Santa Cruz, this is an easy going place to stay with a small budget but rooms were clean and the staff were nice. You can find different restaurant in a walking distance with really good meals and all kind of food can be prepared.
This video has been made by our world traveler, Romain who filmed most of the shoot, have a look and you will understand straight ;-)
Galapagos Diiives from roma no on Vimeo.
P.s. 对于中国大陆的潜友，若因中国网络管制而导致的缓冲较慢，甚至无法观看此Vimeo视频，可以直接访问我们在优酷上发布的该影片。
On June 17th 2014, with all our big diving bags packed and 16 divers ready to finally dive the place, we headed to the jetty on the north of Santa Cruz where we straight jumped into the Penguino chasing boats.
After boarding and the welcome and safety briefing we had a chance to make an equipment check dive just few hundreds meter away of Baltra airport to verify our needed weight (everybody having from 5mm to 7mm long wetsuit) and be sure no equipment have been damage during the different flights. Finally everything went fine and we had a visit by a friendly sea lion during this check, was the first time for all of us and we could already feel how big animals are all around.
The day after we headed to Bartolomé Island et Cousin Rock to make our first day diving, with already plenty of hammerhead sharks around and school of eagle rays (around 40) just behind the sharks, this was intense and the whole group start to understand the beauty of the place and was thinking on the next day as we will have a long cruise to Wolf then Darwin then Wolf again. These 2 dive sites are the highlights of diving in Galapagos but all the archipelago is full of life and surprise can be found on any dive site here.
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