Galapagos: scuba diving from Santa Cruz island
Galapagos without a mortgage, that is how to dive in Galapagos without taking out a fortune on a cruise. Having Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz island as a base, you can reach fantastic diving spots, seeing is believing...
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????Scuba Diving with Eagle Rays, Sharks & Sea Turtles in the Galapagos ????????Santa Cruz Island Ecuador
Galapagos is known for it's extraordinarily rich wildlife, but to see it, you've gotta get in the water!
For our first dive of the season, we couldn't believe how many animals we could find, including: Galapagos sharks, White-tipped reef sharks, Spotted Eagle Rays, Sea Turtles, Eels, Groupers, and of course the dreaded Hammer-Head sharks!
The morning starts off with a short drive from Puerto Ayora to the North-end of Santa Cruz Island. The Earth Unraveled gang is amused by a pack of pelicans helping themselves to some freshly caught fish for breakfast at the marina while we load up the boats, and head on out to the North Seymour dive site.
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Galapagos Islands – Summer 2018 - Episode #3
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Episode #3 – Logistics for San Cristobal Island stay (4 nights/5 Days)
• Hotel Katarma, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. 4 night stay for 2 people ($568.08 total, or $284.04 each). Complimentary breakfast and water bottle re-fills included. I booked through Expedia.com. in January (5 months before my stay). Katarma was sold out most of June and July.
• Taxi from Airport to hotel (10 min trip) = $2
• Kicker Rock Scuba Diving Trip Plus Manglecito beach stop with Wreck Bay Diving Center = $180 per person. Includes lunch.
• Highlands tour that includes freshwater crater lake, Casa del Ceibo (tree house), Giant Tortoise Breeding Center, Puerto Chino, traditional lunch, and Loberia beach swim with sea lions. We used Islanders Galapagos. Cost per person = $120.
• Food Expenses can obviously very. We had 4 breakfasts and 2 lunches included between the hotel and tours. I purchased 4 dinners, and 2 lunches for $58 combined (no Alcoholic drinks or sodas).
• Gratuities: I spent roughly $35 tipping on tours and restaurants.
Shark and pelican at Puerto Ayora Pier Santa Cruz Island Galapagos Ecuador
Shark Diving in the Galapagos
I went scuba diving with hammerhead sharks in the Galapagos Islands, March 29-30, 2014.
The white-tip sharks and black-tip sharks did not bother me, but I was not willing to get any closer than 10 feet to the hammerhead sharks. Some of the hammerheads were 10 feet long!
I mixed this video from footage that was shot during our dives by the dive master Santiago Insuasti of Academy Bay Diving, Puerto Ayora, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos
Music: Beautiful Being, Eastern Sun
Iguanas of galapagos - 09.2019 - Ecuador.
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Galapagos is one of the most exciting destinations in the world. Guests will have the opportunity to dive with playful Sea Lions, travel to the famous Darwin and Wolf for thrilling diving to see Hammerhead Sharks, Whale Sharks, clouds of Tuna and much more on their Galapagos Islands liveaboard scuba diving trip. The scenic view of the Darwin Arch is as picturesque as you can imagine.
Galapagos Tip Top Dive & Training Facility - About us
Galapagos Tip Top Dive & Training Facility is a PADI 5* Star Instructor Development Dive Resort located in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island. Galapagos Tip Top Diving is also the management company of dive live-aboard Galapagos NORTADA. For more information tiptopdiving.com
Galápagos, March 2010
Diving at the La Punta dive site on North Seymour Island, Galápagos. I 've never seen so many sharks at once.
Galápagos Islands June 2014 - Las Grietas, Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz, Isabela GoPro
Footage from our trip to the Galápagos Islands in June 2014. It's very hard to capture how amazing the islands are (especially after my GoPro died three days into the trip), but here is a peek of Puerto Ayora, Las Grietas (the volcanic crack that was an amazing place to snorkel), Las Tintoreras on Isla Isabela, Tortuga Bay with swimming marine iguanas, sharks and tons of fish. Song is Lazy Calm by Cocteau Twins.
Tortuga Bay, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galapagos
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Marine iguanas, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, South America
The marine iguana is an iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands that has the ability, unique among modern lizards, to live and forage in the sea, making it a marine reptile. The iguana can dive over 9 m (30 ft) into the water. It has spread to all the islands in the archipelago, and is sometimes called the Galápagos marine iguana. It mainly lives on the rocky Galápagos shore, but can also be spotted in marshes and mangrove beaches. On his visit to the islands, Charles Darwin was revolted by the animals' appearance, writing: The black Lava rocks on the beach are frequented by large (60--90 cm (2.0--3.0 ft), disgusting clumsy Lizards. They are as black as the porous rocks over which they crawl & seek their prey from the Sea. I call them 'imps of darkness'. They assuredly well become the land they inhabit. Amblyrhynchus cristatus is not always black; the young have a lighter coloured dorsal stripe, and some adult specimens are grey, and adult males vary in colour with the season. Dark tones allow the lizards to rapidly absorb heat to minimize the period of lethargy after emerging from the water. Breeding-season adult males on the southern islands (Española, Floreana and nearby islets) are the most colourful and will acquire red and teal-green colours, while on Santa Cruz they are brick red and black, and on Fernandina they are brick red and dull greenish. Another difference between the iguanas is size, which is different depending on the island the individual iguana inhabits. The iguanas living on the islands of Fernandina and Isabela (named for the famous rulers of Spain) are the largest found anywhere in the Galápagos. On the other end of the spectrum, the smallest iguanas are found on the island on Genovesa. Adult males are up to 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) long, females 0.6--1 metre (2.0--3.3 ft), males weigh up to 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb). The marine iguana lacks agility on land but is a graceful swimmer. Its laterally flattened tail and spiky dorsal fins aid in propulsion, while its long, sharp claws allow it to hold onto rocks in strong currents. Its diet consists of seaweed and algae. A flat snout and sharp teeth enable it to browse on algae growing on rocks. A nasal gland filters its blood for excess salt ingested while eating, which is expelled through the nostrils, often leaving white patches of salt on its face. As an ectothermic animal, the marine iguana can spend only a limited time in cold water diving for algae. Dives of more than 15 m may last up to half an hour. Afterwards it basks in the sun to warm up. Until it can do so it is unable to move effectively, making it vulnerable to predation. Marine iguanas become highly defensive when in this state, biting at potential threats. During the breeding season males assemble large harems of females, which they guard aggressively against rivals. Marine iguanas have been found to change their size to adapt to varying food conditions. During an El Niño cycle in which food diminished for two years, some were found to decrease their length by as much as 20%. When food supply returned to normal, iguana size followed suit. It is speculated that the bones of the iguanas actually shorten as shrinkage of connective tissue could only account for a 10% change in length. Research suggests iguanas secrete a stress hormone that induces decreased skeletal size. El Niño conditions also increase mortality among larger-bodied iguanas, which take longer after foraging trips to warm up and digest algae consumed than smaller-bodied iguanas. Thus the latter are able to make more feeding excursions in a given day. The marine iguana is completely protected under the laws of Ecuador, and is listed under CITES Appendix II. Decreases in food supply due to El Niño cause periodic major declines in population. The species is threatened by predation by introduced species such as cats and dogs, which prey particularly upon its young. The total population size is unknown, but is, according to IUCN, at least 50,000, and estimates from the Charles Darwin Research Station are in the hundreds of thousands. Researchers theorize that land iguanas and marine iguanas evolved from a common ancestor since arriving on the islands from South America, presumably by rafting. It is thought that the ancestral species inhabited a part of the volcanic archipelago that is now submerged. The two species remain mutually fertile, and occasionally hybridize where their ranges overlap.
Diving Gordon Rocks - Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos HD
We did two ~25 min dives at Gordon Rocks off Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos.
I editd them down with our second dive the first 8.5 mins and the first dive the last 4 mins. The second dive was a rock crawl so there are lots of close-ups of the lava rock and things that live in and around them. The first dive was more sandy bottom and had a lot edited out.
Things of interest:
1:15 Black Tip Shark (far away, hard to see)
5:39 Some sort of clam
8:25 First dive
9:40 Rays (far below, can make out shapes)
10:00 Hammerhead Shark (very close!)
10:49 Azure Parrot Fish
11:15 Panamic Cushion Star Fish
11:45 Chocolate Chip Star Fish
12:21 Baracuda (very distant, can barely make out small group)
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