ADVENTURE IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DARWIN
Where else in the world would you find yourself face to face with birds proudly displaying their bright blue feet or puffing out scarlet red gulag sacs from their throats? Ever since the Galápagos Islands and its wildlife cast their spell over Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle in 1835, this archipelago has long enchanted sailors and I was certainly no exception. Here alone can you acquaint yourself with such an eclectic cornucopia of species from waddling penguins sliding around the rock pools to sluggish giant tortoises trudging slowly through the volcanic lowlands.
It was a five-day sail aboard our 1920s Max Oertz-designed yawl from Salinas in mainland Ecuador to reach Galápagos; the dramatic volcanic landscape of
