Isla Española
Española is one of the more remote Galapagos Islands, at some 90km southeast of Isla Santa Cruz. Visitors come from March to December to see its colony of waved albatross, giant tortoises and the Hood mockingbird – which is found nowhere else on earth.
Cruising the Galapagos
An essential guide to cruising the Galapagos Islands
Step aside, humans. The protagonists of the Galapagos Islands’ history are the rare and endemic species that populate this far-flung chain of volcanic islands in the Pacific. As Charles Darwin discovered on his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle in 1835, the natural history of these dynamic islands reveals the fits and starts of evolution itself...read more