GUY HARVEY OUTPOST RESORTS
DARWIN’S BACKYARD BY MARK ELLERT
The Guy Harvey Outpost teams scouts a new
Award-winning Iguana Crossing of Santa Cruz is now a Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition hotel member.
eco-resort location in the Galapagos. I am standing in a feld high atop Isla San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands. It is a view that seems to stretch from here to the beginning of time. There is a stark line out on the horizon that separates a cloudless blue sky from the dark purple Pacifc Ocean, and there’s no sign of human interaction or intervention. Frigate birds foat in circles overhead and a giant tortoise crawls through the high grass nearby. This place feels so remote and untouched it is both unsettling and exhilarating. I am west of the “continent,” as it’s known way out here, approximately 1,000 kilometers from Ecuador. Looking over the water, it’s easy to imagine a similar
famous publication, On the Origin of Species, our visit is about fnding a way to make that same inspiration available to others. We are here to plan for the new Guy Harvey Outpost Lodge, soon to be built on this highland site.
scene when a young English naturalist and geologist, Charles Darwin, landed
Our adventure began when we departed the continent from Guayaquil,
here aboard the HMS Beagle in 1835. Although Darwin’s visit inspired his most
the only gateway to Galapagos. Ranked the world’s best midsize international
