Our home for a week was the luxurious dive vessel the SV Sky Dancer:
The best diving was at the remote Darwin's Arch:
We went to Darwin in search of the gigantic Whale Sharks that migrate there every year to feed. After leaving the zodiacs and submerging we kicked to a rocky underwater outcropping to wait for these gentle giants.
First we were delighted to see a school of Spotted Eagle Rays cruise by:
Soon afterward we were excited to see several large Hammerheads swim over to check us out:
Finally, out of the gloom came the bus-sized Whale Shark! We divers were dwarfed by this magnificent creature:
Not only does the Galapagos boast large pelagics, it also has one of the weirdest creatures I have ever seen. The Red-Lipped Batfish liked neither to swim nor to walk, it prefered to stand on its odd fins and glare at us:
