BALTRA (SOUTH SEYMOUR) 
(South Seymour)From mainland Ecuador you arrive and depart from this island's airport. During WW II, from 1941 to 1948, this island was known as Beta and was occupied by the US Air Force and the US Navy as a Military Base. Back in those days, this airport had the largest airstrip in South America. This raised island is a great visual introduction to Galapagos as you fly overhead.

BARTOLOME 
Perhaps the most photographed location in the entire Galapagos Islands. Here you can climb up a wooden staircase to the summit for a stunning view of two beautiful bays and observe fascinating formations of lava flows and spatter cones. Sea lions and penguins can be seen around Pinnacle Rock and there is a sandy beach with great swimming and snorkeling. This is one of the few locations where you can see penguins in tropical waters.

FERNANDINA (NARBOROUGH) 
The youngest island of the Galapagos group. The landing point is Punta Espinoza. Walk among the hundreds of marine iguanas on black lava rocks. See flightless cormorants, penguins, pelicans, sea lions and mangrove forests. Fernandina's immense dome shape will captivate anyone who visits, a truly magnificent experience.
     
HOOD (ESPAÑOLA)
This wonderful island has so much to offer. Gardner Bay is a coral white-sand beach with sea lions and mockingbirds. Passengers enjoy swimming and snorkeling at the beach and nearby islets. At Punta Suarez you will walk on lava rocks along a trail dotted with nests of blue-footed boobies and masked boobies, a colony of marine iguanas (endemic to Hood) and waved albatrosses.  This is even a great a blow hole to enjoy. There are also sea lions, Galapagos doves and Darwin's finches. 
     
FLOREANA (CHARLES) 
On Floreana you visit Post Office Bay where you find the famous barrel, a do-it-yourself postal service set up by 18th century whalers. Cruising past the "Lobería" islet you can view sea lion colonies. Point Cormorant has an olivine-crystal beach and pink flamingos inhabiting a secluded lagoon. A short walk away is a white-sand beach where sea turtles nest from December to May. Close by is Devil's Crown with beautiful coral formations and great snorkeling. 
     
ISABELA (ALBEMARLE) 
Isabela is the largest island in the Galapagos Archipelago and is formed by six large volcanic domes fused together.Tagus Coven is a natural harbor where centuries ago whalers and pirates left their ship's names etched or painted on the rocks. Walking uphill takes you around Darwin's Crater salt-water lake where you can enjoy superb views of the area. A boat ride along the shoreline lets you see penguins, flightless cormorants, boobies, pelicans and Sally Light foot crabs.

Urbina Bay is located at the foothills of Volcanoes Alcedo and Darwin. Here you land on a dark volcanic sand beach and the highlights include large and colorful land iguanas who take advantage of the excellent nesting grounds that the island provides for them. Here there is a good possibility of seeing giant tortoises in the wild. Along the rocky shoreline it is possible to sight flightless cormorants, blue-footed boobies, penguins and large marine iguanas.

Punta Moreno is located in the central-south western coast of Isabela Island and offers spectacular view of volcanoes Alcedo, Sierra Negra and Cerro Azul. Lava flows from eruptions years ago provide a  desolate and pristine landscape which is home to an array of unusual vegetation. The main attraction is a compound of small brackish lagoons very much like a desert oasis with lagoon birds, including seasonal flamingos. This is an ideal place for observing the rare and reclusive gallinules as well as frequent sightings of frigates, pelicans and other sea birds diving into the lagoons cleansing surface.

Punta Vicente Roca is a unique volcanic landscape where a collapsed caldera floor has been revealed after a major sinking of half of the whole volcano structure. Lava intrusions, called sills and dikes, reveal the relatively recent volcanic activity of this area. Wildlife here surprisingly includes dolphins, whales, sea lions, sea birds, turles, and more. The reason for such an abundance of wildlife here is the Cromwell Current; a deep submarine current that raises at the volcanic platform of the western islands. These cool nutrient-rich waters attract plenty of species which include brown pelicans, blue-footed boobies, noddy terns, shearwaters, and the only tropical penguin on Earth, the Galápagos penguin. There is also the possibility depending on current and visibility to snorkel here. 

JAMES (SANTIAGO) 
At Sulllivan bay you will enjoy fantastic lava formations and an opportunity for snorkeling. At James bay there are many migratory species of birds. Enjoy great swimming and snorkeling and an easy stroll to observe Darwin's finches and the Galapagos hawk and black lava rock formations which are home to a fur sea lion colony. 
     
NORTH SEYMOUR 
North Seymour is home to Palo Santo trees, colonies of blue-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and magnificent frigate birds. On the other side of the island, the waves crash onto the rocks and sea lions play in the surf. 
     
SANTA CRUZ
The Finch Bay Eco Hotel is located here, as well as the Charles Darwin Research Station. Giant tortoises are seen here and seasonally in the highlands where they graze on the pastures of local farms. The Pit Craters (Los Gemelos), in the highlands of the island, is an outstanding area for bird watching, and observation of flora. It is up here where amazing encounters with woodpecker finches have occurred. Moist conditions keep this epiphyte-laden environment with a fresh green look.     

TOWER (GENOVESA) 
Darwin Bay was formed after a caldera collapse. Its steep cliffs dominate the island. It is called "the bird island" because it is home to thousands of frigate birds, red-footed boobies, noddy terns, lava gulls, tropic birds, doves, storm petrels and Darwin's finches. The island provides good snorkeling along the amazing cliff-sides.  At Prince Philip's Steps walk on lava rocks and enjoy a Palo Santo forest full of nesting birds. There is also a good possibility of seeing the unique Short-eared owl. Nazca boobies, great frigate birds, red-footed boobies, and flycatchers are outstanding representatives of the life on Tower island. And the sunsets here are quote a treat.