GALAPAGOS – diving in the dream

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From Santa Cruz to Darwin and back.

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From Santa Cruz to Darwin and back

When you dream about the beauty of a place for a long time, it may happen that it didn’t meet your expectations, but this time the reality has exceeded the dream. It’s really difficult for me to describe the emotion I felt during the first dive and it is even more difficult to describe the emotions experienced during all the other dives. This was one of those rare occasions when I didn’t photograph so much, because I was so fascinated by what I saw that I couldn’t concentrate on shooting.

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GALAPAGOS diving in the dream

In the Santa Cruz area, because of the habit and because of the marine environment, the attention was concentrated on the sand and the rocks.

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between sand and rocks – Pentaceraster cumingi

between sand and rocks – Myrichthys tigrinus Pentaceraster cumingi

between sand and rocks

between sand and rocks – Bodianus diplotaenia

between sand and rocks – Bothus mancus

between sand and rocks – Epinephelus labriformis

between sand and rocks – Arcos poecilophthalmos

between sand and rocks – Scarus ghobban

between sand and rocks – Panulirus penicillatus

between sand and rocks – Gymnothorax dovii

between sand and rocks – Triaenodon obesus

between sand and rocks – Myriopathes panamensis

between sand and rocks – Antipathes galapagensis

Dive after dive, gradually, eyes and interest moved on the schools of fishes that were continuously swimming all around, between the reef and the open ocean.

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the reef – Aetobatus ocellatus

the reef – Xenocys jessiae

the reef – Prionurus laticlavius

the reef – Sphyraena idiastes

the reef – Paranthias colonus Sphyraena idiastes

the reef – Uraspis helvola

the reef – Caranx lugubris

the reef – Carcharhinus galapagensis

In the far north at Darwin and Wolf the bleu enchanted your gaze and then along the way back arrived the surprise of the contrast between the occidental coast and the oriental coast in the north of Isabela. Punta Vicente Roca and the Cromwell Current with its upwelling of green water full of plankton at 16 degrees, Cabo Marshall and the Panama Current with water at 27 degrees that remind you that right there is the equator.

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the bleu – Sphyrna lewini

the bleu – Manta birostris

Punta Vicente Roca – Heterodontus quoyi

Cabo Marshall – Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus

Finally after so many years of waiting, the Galapagos Islands!
The stage of an incredible natural show, that goes on above and below the ocean tirelessly.

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