Up Chuck, four middle-aged guys from Manchester, England. In the way that is peculiar in the cruising community, we suddenly found ourselves with an instant social circle, which we have exercised in several establishments in town. Also we had our young Peace Corps friend Amy, whom we'd met in Bahia. She is now stationed here as a volunteer with the Charles Darwin Foundation to develop small business projects with the local fishermen's wives. It is also rated as an excellent site to see hammerheads.
Nothing is easy, however.
Step in Tackless II Dive Charters. We'll fill the tanks and barter the service for our dive. Don fills eight shop tanks, and the next morning, off we go with a boatload that included John from Magic Four and Frank, Hugh and Mike from Upchuck, plus Victor, our local divemaster. I was very impressed with the speedy and smooth ride out to the dive site, which the guidebook described as a three-hour boat trip. Even with four Galapagos dives under our belts, the 2Cs are still stunned by the volume and size of all these sea creatures.