Fausto Llerena Breeding Center

Cormorant Point + Devil’s Crown

Cormorant Point has two very different beaches: a greenish one tinted by olivine crystals and a flour-sand beach where sea turtles nest. A brackish lagoon behind the shore often hosts flamingos and pintail ducks. Just offshore, the eroded cone of Devil’s Crown offers some of the best snorkeling in the islands, with reef sharks, rays and clouds of tropical fish.

Post Office Bay + Baroness Viewpoint

Since the 18th century, whalers and travelers have left letters in the barrel at Post Office Bay for others to hand-deliver; you can join the tradition and look for mail addressed near your home. A short walk then climbs to the Baroness Viewpoint, named after an Austrian baroness who lived on Floreana in the 1930s, with wide views over the bay.

Gardner Bay

Gardner Bay is a long white-sand beach where sea lions snooze and curious Española mockingbirds hop around your feet.

Suarez Point

Suarez Point is one of the great wildlife spectacles of Galapagos. A trail over boulders leads past colonies of Nazca and blue-footed boobies to the cliffs where waved albatrosses breed (roughly April to December), and to a blowhole that shoots seawater high into the air.

Pitt Point

At the eastern tip of San Cristobal, a trail climbs an eroded tuff cone at Pitt Point, the only place in Galapagos where all three booby species — blue-footed, red-footed and Nazca — nest together. Frigatebirds wheel overhead and sea lions gather on the beach below.

Witch Hill

Witch Hill is a powder-white beach guarded by a tuff cone, once used by early settlers to extract salt. It is a peaceful spot for a walk and a swim, with Kicker Rock visible on the horizon.

Isla Lobos

Your last visit is Isla Lobos, a small islet named after its noisy colony of sea lions. Blue-footed boobies and frigatebirds nest along the trail, and the calm channel is a gentle final snorkel with sea lions and turtles before your transfer to San Cristobal airport for the flight back to mainland Ecuador.