Wednesday 19th April to Saturday 13th May Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean in his circumnavigation of the world in the years 1519 to 1522. It was he who named it “Pacifico” because of its calm nature when he first encountered the ocean after rounding

Monday 10th to Wednesday 19th April The third island which we anchored off, Isabela, was our favourite. It is the most starkly beautiful of the islands of the Galápagos that we visited and also the least touristy. Only four of the 13 main islands that make up the archipelago are