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Kim, Jackie and Beth at San Cristobal Island, Galapagos island group, Ecuador.
View of a side deck that continues towards the rear of the ship.
A steel tube tied to a steel plate fenestration.
A view of the entrance door. On the right side as you enter is the sitting room, while on the left is the large toilet. I say large, comparing it to the big cruise lines where you could hardly move inside.
The mirror headboard that faces the mirror of the dresser in front of the bed. Beside the bed are three rectangular windows!
In our cabin the classic suite, we have a small sitting area for friends to gather chat and have a drink. The onboard cuisine is superb with complementary beverages and house wines. The ship has multi-lingual naturalist guides!
Passengers of the last tender ready to board.
Our ship M/V Galapagos Explorer II. The Galapagos Explorer II is a 293.14 feet ocean-going cruise ship designed to provide comfort and scientific information to 100 passengers visiting the Galapagos National Park. Its operation is emphasized with interesting itineraries that offer the best of this pristine paradise. Expert naturalist guides will offer an environmentally friendly and educational cruise focused in the Natural History of the Galapagos. Navigating the Galapagos Islands at a speed of 17 knots, the Explorer II enables passengers to see more of Galapagos in less time. It has capacity for 105 passengers, but due to the National Park regulations, it only carries 100 passengers. Six naturalist guides aboard lead daily shore excursions and offer nightly briefings to prepare passengers for the islands to be visited the next day. The ship provides all the facilities and services to make the cruises enjoyable and comfortable. Features aboard include Jacuzzi, solarium, spacious dining room, an electronic elevator, large conference room, lounge, three bar areas with music, Boutique and reading room. The ship has 50 air conditioned outside suites, each one with private bathroom and a small sitting area.
San Cristobal island is made up of two coalesced volcanoes. The southwestern half is a symmetric shield volcano made up of gently-dipping lavas and capped by a thick, deeply-weathered pyroclastic blanket and numerous satellite cinder cones. The southwestern shield became emergent around 2.4 million years ago; activity continued up to about 650,000 years ago. The northeastern half of the island is a more recently active volcano, dominated by eruptions from NE-trending fissures. The most recent flows are no more than a few centuries old. Like its neighbors, Santa Cruz and Santa Fe, it lavas show very considerable chemical variation, with some being similar to basalts erupted at mid-ocean ridges (this kind of basalt is often called MORB ­ for Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt). In stark contrast to Hawaiian volcanoes, there is no clear petrologic evolutionary trend displayed by San Cristobal lavas.
Kim, Jackie and Beth at San Cristobal Island, Galapagos island group, Ecuador.
Kim, Jackie and Beth at San Cristobal Island, Galapagos island group, Ecuador.
Kim, Jackie and Beth at San Cristobal Island, Galapagos island group, Ecuador.
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