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A strikingly beautiful first-class sailing catamaran, the Galapagos Nemo II is ideal for families or groups of friends who are interested in exploring the Galapagos Islands in intimacy and comfort.
Nemo II was specially built for up to 14 passengers accommodated in six (7) double cabins, each with a private bathroom, air conditioning and hot water.
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DAY |
ISLAND | PLACES |
| SUN |
North Seymour |
AM: Baltra Airport PM: North Seymour |
| MON |
Santa Cruz |
AM: Highlands PM: Breeding Center Fausto Llerena |
| TUE |
Isabela |
AM: Moreno Point PM: Urbina Bay |
| WED |
Isabela Fernandina |
AM: Tagus Cove PM: Espinoza Point |
| THU |
Santiago |
AM: Egas Port PM: Bucaneer Cove |
| FRI |
Rabida Santiago |
AM: Rabida Island PM: Sullivan Bay |
| SAT |
Genovesa |
AM: Prince Phillio´s Steps PM: Darwin Bay |
| SUN | San Cristobal |
AM: Interpretation Center San Cristobal Airport |
NORTH SEYMOUR ISLAND
AM: Upon arrival at the Baltra Airport, travellers pass through an airport inspection point to make sure that no foreign plants or animals are introduced to the islands, and to pay the park entrance fee of $100. A guide will meet you, help you collect your luggage, and escort you until Nemo II.
PM: North Seymour Island
This islet is one of most visited sites, and it is teeming with birdlife. An easy circular path takes you through the archipelago’s most extensive colonies of blue-footed boobies and frigate birds. At the beginning of the breeding season, adult frigatebird-males blow up their vivid red pouches to impressive football-sized balloons. This is one of the few spots where you can compare the magnificent and the great frigatebird breeding next to each other.
SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: HIGHLANDS AND BREEDING CENTER FAUSTO LLERENA
AM: Highlands
The road to the highlands leaves from Bellavista, a small village located a 15-minute drive from Puerto Ayora and passes through the agricultural zone, near the National Park boundary, the Miconia Zone, and then goes to the Fern and Sedge zone. With clear weather, this area gives you beautiful scenes of rolling hills and extinct volcanic cones covered with grass and lush greenery all year round. Here you will visit the Twin Craters, which are two pit craters, as well as a local ranch where we can observe the Giant tortoise of Santa Cruz Island in its natural habitat.
PM: Breeding Center Fausto Llerena
Today you will visit Fausto Llerena Tortoise Breeding Center. This is home to tortoises ranging from 3-inches (new hatchlings) to 4-feet long. Subspecies of tortoises interact with one another and many of the older tortoises are accustomed to humans, stretching out their heads for a photo opportunity. The babies are kept here until they are about four years-old and strong enough to survive on their own.
ISABELA ISLAND: MORENO POINT & URBINA BAY
AM: Moreno Point
After breakfast, we will disembark in Moreno Point which is located near Elizabeth Bay on the west coast of Isabela Island. The plethora of birds seen during a dinghy ride along the striking rocky shores or a hike along path through lava rock leading to tide pools and mangroves create a birdwatcher’s delight. In the tide pools, green sea turtles or white-tip sharks can be spotted.
PM: Urbina Bay
This place is located at the base of Alcedo Volcano between Elizabeth Bay and Tagus Cove. Wet landing. Trail length is around 3.20 Km; during this walking we can observe land iguanas, hawks, tortoises; also it is possible to see red and blue lobsters.
ISABELA ISLAND: TAGUS COVE AND FERNANDINA ISLAND: ESPINOZA POINT
AM: Tagus Cove
A tour along the cliffs in a zodiac will give the visitors a good chance to see the Galapagos penguin, the flightless cormorant and other sea birds. From the landing dock a 30-minute hike along the trail up to the top of the cliff takes you to a viewpoint of Darwin Lake, an uplifted ultra-saline lake. You can also see several volcanoes from this location. The route of the trail is about 1800 meters, and was considered a favorite spot for pirates and whalers, a tradition continued with the names of boats and ports. At the start of the walk, we find a small cave where we find inscriptions dating to the 1800s. The trail is mostly gravel, and leads into the interior of the island along Darwin Lake. During the walk, you can see various land birds and identify the characteristic vegetation of the arid zone. Finally, we observe the lava fields of Darwin Volcano. Darwin Lake rests upon a “tuff” type cone, contains saltwater and its depth is approximately 9m. It has no fish and few forms of life due to its high salinity.
PM: Espinoza Point
Fernandina is the 3rd island bigger of Galapagos and has just one visit place: Espinoza Point.
Espinoza Point is famous site because you will find big colonies of marine iguanas and to be the unique place where the flightless Cormorant lives, Galapagos penguin, hawk, snakes of Galapagos and many other. From Espinoza Point we can admire Fernandina Island and its volcano which last eruption was on May 2005. Fernandina is the only island that doesn’t have any mammal introduced and the open areas are very fragile. In nesting time of marine iguana (January to June) we have a lot care when we are walking.
SANTIAGO ISLAND: EGAS PORT AND BUCANNER COVE
AM: Egas Port
In this site we find a black sand beach; at south of this beach there is a volcano called Pan de Azucar, it has volcanic deposits which have contributed to the formation of this black sand beach.
The crater of this volcano has a salt lake which in warm time becomes dry and it is possible to appreciate a salt mine. Between 1928 and 1930 there were some explorations to this mine but they didn’t function; additionally, it caused damages to the environment because of workers use endemic woods. It is not allowed go down to salt mine. Lunch.
PM: Bucaneer Cove
Your afternoon visit is to Bucanneer Cove where marine iguanas lounge and the Sally Lightfoot crabs attract the hunting herons performing the dance of predator and prey right before your eyes. Snorkeling is highly recommended as you could find yourself face to face with an octopus, moray eel, shark and a variety of other species of tropical fish.
RABIDA ISLAND AND SANTIAGO ISLAND: SULLIVAN BAY
AM: Rabida Island
Galapagos offers a diversity of geological formations without boundaries. The island of Rabida has lavas rich in iron and after millions of years of exposure to air they have turned red. The rusted volcanic material has eroded to form a beautiful crimson sand beach, lovely for a walk. The protected shore provides excellent conditions for a Galapagos sea lions nursery and brown pelicans use the nearby saltbushes as a resting and nesting area. Hawks and mocking birds are common visitors of the lowlands. Furthermore, you will find that snorkeling of the beach can be very exiting as sharks, rays and many colorful fish are often visible.
PM: Sullivan Bay
Wet landing and hiking. Description of the place: all the road and the island is composed of lava flows that still they are virtually without eroding and they cover an extensive area, lava pohoehhoe or of cords, hornitos, mollugo, this plant grows in the lava. Lava Colonizers.
GENOVESA ISLAND: PRINCE PHILIP´S STEPS & DARWIN BAY
AM: Prince Phillip´s Steps
After lunch you will do a dry landing to climb Prince Philip’s Steps. The steep ascend takes you 100 feet above sea level, to be welcomed by the elegant silhouette of red billed tropic bird and the aerobatic Galapagos shearwater, both interact with the precipice on fast approaches. The lava rock trail takes through the endemic dwarf incense tree forest, to find more red footed “lancers” nesting and many of their gannet like relatives, the Nazcas, loudly claiming the floor as their residence. The Palo Santo forest is dormant most of the year, to awaken in the rainy season and contaminate the air with a refreshing aroma. As you exit the latent trees your breath may cease by the panorama of thousands of storm petrels flying erratically beyond the lava flows. This is the perfect scenario for the island predator to make a successful kill. The short-eared owl, known elsewhere around the world as a nocturnal predator, in Genovesa hunts in bright daylight. More cat than owl, waits patiently outside lava tunnels and crevasses to capture the stormy petrels as they leave their houses after feeding their young.
Snorkeling on Tower offers a view of a wide variety of tropical fish.
PM: Darwin Bay
The cliff tops are decorated with frigate birds, red-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, swallow tailed gulls, tropic birds and many other pelagic animals. Darwin Bay is the home of many nesting sea birds. Following a wet landing and with the early morning light you will blend in with the red-footed boobies displaying for potential mates as they collect nesting material. The great frigate birds inflate their gulag sacks hoping to attract a female while others play their favorite game: piracy. Darwin’s finches, Galapagos doves and mocking birds stroll the ground to find seeds and insects. The red mangroves, cactus and saltbushes contrast with the blue sky and the dark basaltic walls.
DAPHNE ISLAND
AM: Daphne Island
Travel to Daphne, a tiny conical island, home to nesting blue-footed boobies, frigatebirds, Darwin's finches, and a variety of marine life. Observe from the boat as this island is dedicated to scientific research. This island was where Dr. Peter Grant conducted a long-term study of Darwin's finches.
After this morning excursion you will be taken to the airport for your flight to the mainland.
Important: Itineraries are unlikely to change significantly but are subject to change. Weather, wildlife breeding, safety concerns, instructions from the Galapagos National Park, specific abilities and interests of passengers as well as operational matters may cause your guide or captain to change the time or nature of visits. Your guide and captain will always endeavor to select the best itinerary within these limits.
| Name | Nemo II Catamaran |
| Constructor | Allumarine |
| Category | First Class |
| Type | Motor Sail |
| Loa | 21.88m |
| Beam | 10.39m |
| Draft | 1.5m |
| Construction | 1990 |
| Capacity | 14 passengers max. |
| Crew | 7 members including the naturalist English speaking guide |
| Equipment | snorkeling equipment, sea kayak and dinghy. |
| Accommodation |
Cabin 1-2: Double bed (only for couples). Cabin 3-4: Lower single bed - double upper bed. Cabin 5: Lower double bed - upper single bed. Cabin 6-7: Lower single bed - upper single bed. |
| Security | - 2 life rafts - 1 EPIRB (Satellite locator) - 1 SART (Radio Beacon) - 2 waterproof VHF - 20 life vests |
| Electricity | It is necessary to try to manage the consumption of electricity by checking your cabin when there is nobody at the interior and not to fall asleep when the light is on. Please act in the same way with the ventilador |
| Transmition |
- HF & VHF |
| Technic Equipment | - Ice maker - Freezer - Water maker - Hot water |
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