Academy Bay Tour

Bay Tour -Itinerary

Schedule: 9am or 2 pm

Duration: 4 hours

You will depart from the pier in Puerto Ayora and have a boat ride to 5 different sites around the Academy Bay. Within approximately 10 min you will reach a small island called the Loberia where you will encounter a large colony of playful sealions. Then you will continue to Franklin’s Bay where you can drop yourself into the water and snorkel around. Next stop will be the ‘Canal de Amor’, where you can enjoy a great panorama and will have the chance to spot some blue-footed boobies perched on the cliff. At the ‘Playa de los Perros’ beach you will disembark and wander down a trail through a prickly-pear cactus forest. You will find marine iguanas and turtles off the shore. Reaching the ‘Canal Tiburon’, you will see white-tip sharks resting at the bottom of a clear turquoise pool. The last site to visit in this tour is ‘Las Grietas’, a 10-metre-deep channel with huge lava stone walls, an ideal site for snorkeling and experiencing a different kind of natural formations in the islands.

Tour includes: Naturalist guide, Snorkeling mask, small Snack