Floreana has had an interesting history. In the 1930's, strage events involving an erratic baroness and her three lovers, a doctor and his mistress, and a young couple of Cologne, have been ever since part of a murder and mistery story. But Floreana offers much more that just intriguing story.

There are three sites on the north coast of Floreana. Post Office Bay has had a barrel thats been
change many times, over the years. Whalers and Galapagos residents use to leave their mail inside
it, waiting for a captain of any boat headed to where the mail was addressed to deliver it. Very
close-by is a pleasent swimming beach.

At Punta Cormorant there is a greenish beach, do to the accumulation of olivine crystal mineral.
Sea lions swim and play around while you enjoy a good snorkel. The trail goes to a white sand
beach which is a nesting area for Green Tultles, Stingrays (be careful) and White-tipped reef sharks swimming where waves crash, being visible from the shore.

Devil's Crown is a half-submerged volcanic cone, considered to be one of the most outstanding marine sites of the Galapagos Islands.

Española is the most southerly of the archipielago and somewhat outliying having a high portion of endemic fauna. The island is well worth visiting, because it has the only colony of the waved albatross, one of the Galapagos most spectacular seabirds.

The best visitor site on Española is Punta Suarez where following a trail of lava rocks blue-footed boobies have placed their nests and a variety of iguanas bask in the sun. The trail continues towards a colony of waved albatross.

Just beyond the colony is a blow hole where if you sit long enough you can watch seabirds performing their aerial acrobatic moves and their less graceful attempts to land and to take off.

The beautiful white-sand beach of Gardner Bay, located at the eastern coast, provides an excellent beach for swimming and snorkeling; while a colony of playful sealions and mocking birds observe with curiosity.

Genovesa is a formation of submerged edges of a crater. Known as "the bird island", it is the best place to see a red-footed booby colony and it also provides great opportunity to visit other bird cvolonies, such as: masked boobies, frigatebirds, swallow-tailed gulls, red-billed tropicbirds, Galapagos doves, short-eared owls, Pintail ducks, and much more... Both sea lion species can be found on this island and when snorkeling hammerhead sharks are seen, from above.

Darwin Bay Beach is a coral beach with a trail that will leads to more seabird colonies.

At Prince Philip's Steps many visitors climb to the plateau to take a glace at many seabirds
and storm petrels nesting and wheeling overhead.

Marchena is the largest island not to have visitor sites. Although it has very good scuba-diving sites, however you have to be on a diving tours to go to the island. In 1991 this island presented volcanic activity and in the past, it was possible to see the lava eruptions from vessels cruising by the norther part.

Pinta Island is famous for being home of Lonesome George. There are landing sites but no visitor sites.