Santa Cruz Puerto Ayora and Coffee Plantation Day 7 March 13th

 

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The Fausto Llerena Breeding Center and Puerto Ayora Town Visit, Santa Cruz Plazas Sur
Silver Galapagos will cruise overnight to Santa Cruz, an island in the central part of the archipelago with the largest human population. The headquarters of the Galápagos National Park Service and the Charles Darwin Research Station are located in the small
town of Puerto Ayora.

 

Coffee Plantation 7:45 Sign up  2.5 hours Bus travel 1 hour total

Learn how to taste coffee and a sustainable house

Will see tortoises

Time to explore the town

There will be time to do some sightseeing and shopping in town as well.

12:30 All aboard

So..

Puerto Ayoras

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 Puerto Ayora
Busy Port with Many Small Taxi Boats
Santa Cruz Island

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 Puerto Ayora
Busy Port with Many Small Shops
Santa Cruz Island

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 Puerto Ayora
Shape of the Tortoise Shell
Santa Cruz Island

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 Coffee Plantation
Sustainable House
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Tortoise under the Avocado Tree
Coffee Plantation
Tortoise Under the Avocado Tree
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Tortoise under the Avocado Tree
Coffee Plantation
Tortoise Under the Avocado Tree
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Avocado Tree
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Avocado Tree
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Avocado Tree and Avocado Flower with a Butterfly
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Avocado on the Ground
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Robert – The Coffee Farmer and Conservationist with an Interest in providing Safe Environment for the Turtles showing the way to the Turtle Pond
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Started Out with an Idea to Create a Farm to enable Turtles to thrive and a Coffee Farm to Sustain Themselves
Turtles Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 The Turtle Pond
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 The Turtle Pond
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Mud On Your Face – Big Disgrace
The Turtle Pond
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Mud On Your Face – Big Disgrace
The Turtle Pond
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Male Shell with Ring Morphology
The Turtle Pond
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Female Shell with Smooth Morphology as a result of Male Mounting in Copulation – Sexual Act may be Up to 1.5 hours
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Rena, wife of Roberto, Gives a Walk and a Talk About the Coffee Production and Conservation
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Sustainable House Recycles Rainwater Solar Panels on the Roof
Paint Made from Grinding Volcanic Sand
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Coffee beans Red is Ripe
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Coffee beans Red is Ripe
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Papaya Plant
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Bad Yellow Fungus Contained by the Good White Fungus without Introducing a Fungicide
– A Story of Patience and Letting nature Take its Course
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Coffee Tasting
Coffee Plantation
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Back into Town
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Poinciana Tree
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Stores
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Art Store
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Art Store
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 A Woman and a Guitar
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Bacalou
Dried Cod
Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Pelicans Hanging Out Waiting for a Treat
Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Pelicans Hanging Out Waiting for a Treat
Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Pelicans Fighting Over a Treat
Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Fish for Dinner
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Brown Noddy (anous stolidus)
Fish Market
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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Brown Noddy
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Brown Noddy (anous stolidus) and Skeleton of the Head of a Fish
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Female Frigate Hooked Beak
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Female Frigate White Breast
Split Tail
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Poinciana Tree
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Skate Board Park with Charles Darwin Portrait
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Hanging Out
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Hanging Out
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Hanging Out
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Isla

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 Poinciana Tree
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

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 Back to the Ship
Puerto Ayora
Santa Cruz Island

PM

Dry Landing

South Plaza is a neat little island located close to the eastern coast of Santa Cruz. Its main attraction is a colony of Galápagos land iguanas, but the setting is also a highlight- giant prickly pear cactus, the reddish sesuvium plant, a mat-like ground cover, and a
large nesting colony of Swallow-tailed Gulls make this small island an excellent stop.

Sea birds

Marine Inguanas

15:30

2 hours

0r 16:00 hours  short walk
Marine iguanas and Galápagos sea lions are also around.

 

From Wiki

Santa Cruz Island (Spanish pronunciation: [?santa ?k?us]) is one of the Galápagos Islands with an area of 986 km2 (381 sq mi) and a maximum altitude of 864 metres (2,835 ft).[1][2][3][4] Situated in the center of the archipelago, Santa Cruz is the second largest island after Isabela. Its capital is Puerto Ayora, the most populated urban centre in the islands. On Santa Cruz, there are some small villages, whose inhabitants work in agriculture and cattle raising.

The island is an oval-shaped, 32 km (20 mi) long and 40 km (25 mi) wide shield volcano. Its summit contains a shallow caldera that has been largely buried by youthful pit craters and cinder cones with well-preserved craters. The most recent eruptions may have occurred only a few thousand years ago with the effusion of sparsely vegetated lava flows from vents on the north flank and along the summit fissure.[5] A gigantic lava tube measuring over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) long is a tourist attraction on the island. As a testimony to its volcanic history there are two big holes formed by the collapse of a magma chamber: Los Gemelos, or “The Twins”.[6][7]

Named after the Holy Cross, its English name (Indefatigable) was given after a British vessel HMS Indefatigable.[1] Santa Cruz hosts the largest human population in the archipelago at the town of Puerto Ayora, with a total of 12,000 residents on the island.[1]

Tortuga Bay is located on the Santa Cruz Island, a short walk from center of Puerto Ayora where you can view marine iguanas,

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birds, Galapagos crabs

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and a natural mangrove where you can spot white tip reef sharks

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and the gigantic Galápagos tortoises.[8]

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