Christopher_B
Contributor
Hi,
The Galapagos archipelago often features high on divers bucket lists, and rightly so. With schooling hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, white tip sharks, eagle rays, tunas, mantas, stingrays, barracudas, snappers, goatfish, wahoo, groupers, sea lions, marine iguanas, penguins, moray eels, turtles & red-lipped batfish, & maybe mola mola, dolphins, possibly even sailfish, silky sharks, and tiger sharks, there is a wealth of big fish encounters. But Ive forgotten something..... hmmm...... Oh yeah, the biggest fish in the sea; the whale shark. And not just any whale sharks. Oh no. According to one of the worlds leading specialists on the species, Dr Simon Pierce, the Galapagos Islands are the only place where adult female whale sharks - many of them pregnant, and bigger than a bus - are routinely seen.
I have chartered the best boat in the Galapagos, the excellent and recentlylaunched Galapagos Aggressor III, in prime whale shark season, and Dr Pierce will be on board with us to tell us about the different species we will be gawping at underwater.
I said we, as I will be on board to provide photography assistance and coaching, tell the odd bad joke, and keep the average IQ down. Hopefully youll be joining us.
I am also working on an add-on trip to Isla de la Plata, south of Guayaquil, for a few days diving with the largest aggregation of giant mantas on the planet, according to world-leading manta expert Dr Andrea Marshall. I can also arrange additional days on the islands at accommodation that I have tried and tested in the past.
Other reasons to come:
1. As well as a trip ashore on Santa Cruz to the Charles Darwin Research Station, I can organise tailor-made extensions on the Galapagos and after the cruise I will be going to Puerto Lopez on the Ecuadorian mainland , a couple of hours from Guayaquil, to see the giant mantas that congregate around De La Plata Island in Machalilla National Park.
2. Most Galapagos trips for 2015 and 2016 are already booked up.
3.There is a $200 discount on this trip. I am selling it a $5395 per person (excluding $110 of local park fees and taxes), 2015 trips on this vessel are now $5595.
4. The longer you wait, the more expensive its going to get, every one of the half-dozen dive boats operating in the Galapagos raises their rates every year (2016 rates are $5795 on the Aggressor III).
5. Theres nothing better to do in October 2015.
6. According to the calculations of a learned 4th century Zoroastrian monk, the world will end in November 2015 (probably). Imagine how miffed youd be if the Galapagos were on your bucket list, you foolishly didnt heed his warning, he was right, and you missed out.
More info here: Galapagos Whale Shark special, 2015 - Indigo Safaris
Christopher
The Galapagos archipelago often features high on divers bucket lists, and rightly so. With schooling hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, white tip sharks, eagle rays, tunas, mantas, stingrays, barracudas, snappers, goatfish, wahoo, groupers, sea lions, marine iguanas, penguins, moray eels, turtles & red-lipped batfish, & maybe mola mola, dolphins, possibly even sailfish, silky sharks, and tiger sharks, there is a wealth of big fish encounters. But Ive forgotten something..... hmmm...... Oh yeah, the biggest fish in the sea; the whale shark. And not just any whale sharks. Oh no. According to one of the worlds leading specialists on the species, Dr Simon Pierce, the Galapagos Islands are the only place where adult female whale sharks - many of them pregnant, and bigger than a bus - are routinely seen.
I have chartered the best boat in the Galapagos, the excellent and recentlylaunched Galapagos Aggressor III, in prime whale shark season, and Dr Pierce will be on board with us to tell us about the different species we will be gawping at underwater.
I said we, as I will be on board to provide photography assistance and coaching, tell the odd bad joke, and keep the average IQ down. Hopefully youll be joining us.
I am also working on an add-on trip to Isla de la Plata, south of Guayaquil, for a few days diving with the largest aggregation of giant mantas on the planet, according to world-leading manta expert Dr Andrea Marshall. I can also arrange additional days on the islands at accommodation that I have tried and tested in the past.
Other reasons to come:
1. As well as a trip ashore on Santa Cruz to the Charles Darwin Research Station, I can organise tailor-made extensions on the Galapagos and after the cruise I will be going to Puerto Lopez on the Ecuadorian mainland , a couple of hours from Guayaquil, to see the giant mantas that congregate around De La Plata Island in Machalilla National Park.
2. Most Galapagos trips for 2015 and 2016 are already booked up.
3.There is a $200 discount on this trip. I am selling it a $5395 per person (excluding $110 of local park fees and taxes), 2015 trips on this vessel are now $5595.
4. The longer you wait, the more expensive its going to get, every one of the half-dozen dive boats operating in the Galapagos raises their rates every year (2016 rates are $5795 on the Aggressor III).
5. Theres nothing better to do in October 2015.
6. According to the calculations of a learned 4th century Zoroastrian monk, the world will end in November 2015 (probably). Imagine how miffed youd be if the Galapagos were on your bucket list, you foolishly didnt heed his warning, he was right, and you missed out.
More info here: Galapagos Whale Shark special, 2015 - Indigo Safaris
Christopher
