Galapagos Sailing

It’s the peak of every sailing story. The moment surrounded by blue sky and ocean, with only the sound of your sails shifting with the wind and the water lapping at the sides of the boat.

Ah. There’s nothing like it.

Ask any sailor where to find the best sailing and you’ll notice a theme emerge. Remote islands, far away from civilization, continually make the sailors list of those serene scenes and breathtaking moments.

Greece, French Polynesia, and even the waters approaching the Poles offer some of these desirable venues. Sailors seek out these places for their distance from humanity and the tranquil surroundings of deep, blue, ocean water.

But, if “remote” islands are the goal, there is no substitute for the most famously isolated island chain in the world: The Galapagos Islands.

The Galapagos Islands poke through the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean, 604 miles off the west South America. This collection of rocks formed from lava spewing to the surface from a crack in the earth’s crust and hardening over millions of years. The Islands are Mother Nature’s most fascinating example of life’s possibilities in isolation and are best experienced by a Galapagos Islands sailing tour.

Humanity will forever remember these islands as the place where evolution was so explicitly observed by Charles Darwin in the 1830s. But today, the 19 islands, and 107 rocks protruding from the ocean, are taking on a new fame as a must-see stop on one’s world traveling tour – a place that must be expe-rienced and carefully preserved.

Eco-friendly sailing tours are among the only ways we can experience these islands and be sure their survival for generations to come.

The Nemo Sailing Tours, from Adventure Associates, offers such an experience. You can be assured to not only find the “moment” of remote beauty you’ve been chasing, but do so without disturbing one of Earth’s most precious and beautiful places.

Visit Adventure Associates to start planning your dream Galapagos sailing vacation or other environ-mentally friendly Galapagos tour.