Galapagos

After a day in Quito, Ecuador, clients will fly to the Galapagos and board the sixty-eight foot motor cruiser, Mistral to begin our adventure. We'll dive and explore the islands Charles Darwin made famous. We'll visit as many as twenty major sites throughout the Galapagos, enjoying giant tortoises, marine iguanas, penguins, flightless cormorants, and a host of other exotic life.

Famed underwater escorts such as Paul Humann leads the most experienced crew in the Galapagos. I purposely recommend a vessel in the ten passenger class to keep from crowding our secret dive sites. This vessel is the finest, fastest vehicle for serious divers and photographers who seek something exceptional.

The waters of the Galapagos are a famed area of nutrient upwelling, producing prolific, and unusual marine life. Fully one third of the inshore marine species exist nowhere else in the world. Our groups have had encounters with whales, giant loggerhead turtles, ocean sunfish, manta rays, orcas, and other fabled larger species. Yet every dive may contain rare or unique creatures such as the wrasse-assed bass, red bellied batfish, golden grouper or the brilliant red horse conch.

Best of all, most of Mistral and Lammer Law cruises go to the northern Islands, Darwin and Wolf, for the incredible shallow-water schooling hammerheads.

Mistral offers 14 day, 10 day, and 7 day cruises for sophisticated divers. You will want to see the real Galapagos so every cruise spends time in the main islands as well as seeing the astonishing northern sites. It really is worth the time and money to see more with these adventurous cruises.