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Into the blue

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

One of the main things we wanted to do on arrival in the Galapagos was to dive.  For a while it was looking as though it would only be me going, but luckily Nick recovered from the nasty cold he’d been suffering from the week before.  So on arrival in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz one of our first jobs was to seek out a couple of dive companies and arrange two days of diving.

In the end we went with Scuba Iguana, they seemed to be the most professional of the companies we talked to – the only people to ask how many dives we had, when the last time we had dived was etc.  Kind of key questions, I think.  They also limited the number of divers to one dive master to 4 which was appealing. [read on]

Santa Cruz and around

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Having decided not to go on a cruise around the islands we based ourselves in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz for five nights and also spent four nights on Isabela.  We dived on two days and occupied ourselves on various walks and tours for the other three days. [read on]