Galapagos Islands Liveabaord Dive Trip- Oct-Nov 2027
October 23rd to November 4th, 2027 -13 days/10 nights from $15,895 ex Sydney
This trip is truly a trip of a lifetime. Is it on your Bucket list?
The Galapagos Islands is a trip that would be something you talk of doing one day, well, that day came for us in 2019 and was fantastic! So good, that we have booked the boat to go again in 2027!!
Our Galapagos Islands Dive Trip is in Oct 2027. It not a cheap trip travelling half way around the world with a number of flights to get there, but worth every bit of it to get to this remote location.
What does it include for $15,895!
- Airfares Ex Sydney to San Christobel with LATAM Airlines
- Aust departure taxes and airline taxes
- 2 nights Twin share accommodation in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- 7 nights Twin share aboard MV Galapagos Master
- All meals and snacks and soft drink on live aboard.
- Up to 18 dives whilst abord the Galapagos Master
- 1 night accommodation on return at Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- Land tours on North Seymour and Santa Cruz
MV Galapagos Master Liveaboard
The Galapagos Master is a live-aboard that caters specially for divers, spending the time at locations around the islands that offer the best diving. Locations like Darwin and Wolf offer spectacular site of schooling Hammerheads and Pelagics, along with a chance of Whale-sharks as well as Mola-Mola (Sunfish) at Isla Isabela. The Galapagos Master has only 16 guests and provides a high quality level of service.1
To get to the Galapagos Islands,
To get to the Galapagos Islands, we fly via Santiago to Guayaquil in Ecuador, and then onto Santa Cristobel at the Galapagos islands., we board the Liveaboard to do 7 days on-board “Deep Blue” (the Galapagos Master) diving up to 4 dives per day. We stop at Santa Cruz and see weird and wonderful sites including Sea Lions lying around the Wharves, Lava tubes at the Volcano sites and the large Galapagos tortoises at the Charles Darwin Research Centre.
Whilst in South America you can do extensions! Machu Pichu maybe?
We are also offering extensions either before or after the Galapagos Master trip to places like Machu Pichu. This was a highlight for our group last time, and while you have travelled that far, why not extend to these amazing places. Details will be available closer to the trip date for those interested.
Diving the Galapagos Islands
After boarding the Galapagos Master, we did a check out dive to check our dive skills and weights (the water is very salty there) we then departed from San Cristobal Island on a 7-night itinerary.
Our first dives are off North Seymour Island where we see our first and certainly not our last Hammerhead Sharks. After learning negative entries from the diving tenders on dive two, we visit North Seymour Island and check out the Blue footed Booby birds and Red Breasted Frigate birds, along with the Iguana before cruising off 100nm to the northern islands of Darwin and Wolf.
If there is only one message you get from reading this, it is, if you go to the Galapagos Islands, you must dive from a Dive Liveaboard, otherwise you will MISS DIVING THESE LOCATIONS! The diving at these two locations is outstanding. Cheaper tourist liveaboard boats do not go to these far away islands.
We spend two days at Darwin and do up to 8 dives there, all off the famous “Darwin’s Arch”. (now Darwin’s Pillars, as the arch has collapsed) With our negative entries almost perfected, we entered the water and quickly get to the bottom so the current does not take us away. From here we look out off the edge of a wall, come drop-off, to see the magnificent site of schooling Hammerheads.
Every dive here is just full of these magnificent sharks and doesn’t get the slightest bit repetitive. Visibility is not usually bad at around 20 to 25 mtrs on most dives. Water temp is a lovely 27 -28c too!
Then we move to the island of Wolf.
Well…if you think Darwin’s Arch diving sounds good, diving at Wolf Island tops it off. Dive one for the day at Wolf is usually in Shark Bay, where you see a few Hammerheads, and the odd Sea-Lion. Dive two could be the best dive of the trip. Starting at the same location but moving the opposite direction around the island to El Derumbe is where you see the Schools of Hammerheads. It not just 10 or maybe 20 Hammers in the school, it can be well over 100! and they just kept coming and coming. Dive three is again in the El Derumbe area, to see the Hammerheads again, and again.
It not just 10 or maybe 20 Hammers in the school, it can be well over 100 passing every minute!
The last dive at Wolf ,is often at Shark Bay again, and whilst the diving with Hammerheads is on the cards again, other sightings like Galapagos Sharks and Dolphins. are possible.
After our last dive Wolf, we cruise overnight back to the main archipelago of the Galapagos Islands to the northern end of Isabela at Punta Vicente Roca. It is here you do two dives looking for Sunfish. . Moving on to Dive three of the day at Isla Fernandina is where you dive with the Marine Iguana in the shallows.
Every itinerary is scheduled with the Galapagos National Park and must be strictly adhered to regardless of the weather or desire of the divers.
This trip is outstanding. A long way to go from Australia, but worth the cost and is easily a bucket list destination.
Click here to go to the Galapagos islands trip flyer
Check out this short Youtube video below!
