ESPAÑOLA (Hood) Gardner Bay:

Welcome to paradise beach. Home to a coral white-sand beach with sea lions and mockingbirds.

Swimming and snorkeling at the beach and nearby islets.

Turquoise waters and its hues of green and blue will keep cameras shooting.

Punta Suárez: Walk on lava rocks along a trail dotted with nests of blue-footed boobies and Nazca (masked) boobies, a colony of marine iguanas (endemic to the island), waved albatrosses and a blow hole.

There are also sea lions, Galápagos doves and three species of Darwin's finches.