Green Bay Scuba - 2006 Galapagos Islands trip

The Galapagos Island trip was a great adventure. We flew into Guayaquil Saturday, August 05. A representative from the live-aboard Deep Blue greeted us at the airport. The Deep Blue is the newest live-aboard built in 2003. It has all the amenities of a first-class dive yacht, including a spacious dry camera area. The food was excellent and it was nice to see some familiar crewmember’s faces from my last dive with the Deep Blue that I took two years ago.

We did our checkout dive at Isla San Cristobel and had fun with the sea lions. Afterwards we headed north to Isla Daphne Menor for a few dives before departing for Darwin and the Wolf Islands (we dove from inflatable Pangas which held eight divers each). On our very first dive at Darwin we rolled back into the water and almost landed on a whale shark. It was absolutely spectacular. This was the first of seventeen whale shark sightings in ten dives over the span of two and a half days. In between whale shark sightings we passed the time by viewing hammerheads, white tip and Galapagos sharks. We also saw an abundance of turtles, eels, dolphins and huge schools of fish. The abundance of marine life in the Galapagos is phenomenal. I have over 2200 dives in 32 years of diving throughout various parts of the world. Nothing in comparison comes close to the Galapagos (Darwin and Wolf Islands) for marine life viewing.