Six hundred miles off Ecuador, on the equator, three ocean currents collide and produce something that exists nowhere else: penguins and flamingos on the same archipelago, marine iguanas that graze the seabed, and animals with no learned fear of people.
Darwin spent five weeks here in 1835 and took twenty-three years to work out what he had seen. A yacht is the right way to travel it ’ the islands are far apart, most landings are regulated, and the best sites are reached by tender at dawn. A licensed naturalist guide is required, and improves everything.
Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Galápagos; the rest we tailor to you.
