Nautilus Explorer Itinerary

Ocean and Rainforest Adventures

6 days / 5 nights

About Nautilus Explorer

  • Facilities include nitrox, gear storage, spacious zodiacs, and camera stations
  • Adventurous itineraries in Socorro and Revillagigedo, and Guadalupe
  • Enjoy zodiac tours, marine life presentations, paddleboards and kayaks
  • Comfortable cabins for various budgets and personal travel styles

Nautilus Explorer offers an adventurous liveaboard experience, with voyages boasting some of the eastern Pacific's most exciting big fish action. Choose from trips to Socorro and Revillagigedo, Guadalupe, or pioneering itineraries combining both destinations! You'll enjoy personalised service, well appointed cabins and common areas, and custom-designed divers' facilities to help make the most of your time in the water. Plus, thoughtful details like warm deck showers and hot drinks after each dive and a hot tub for a hint of luxury. This boat perfectly balances a comfortable and unfussy atmosphere with little luxuries, creating the ideal environment for divers and social guests.

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Itinerary details

6 days / 5 nights
TBA
Open Water - Minimum 5 dives
Required

Highlights

  • New circular itinerary focussed on exploration and discovery
  • Combine rainforest adventures with underwater exploration
  • Opportunities for diving, kayaking, and relaxing
  • Encounter playful bottlenose dolphins and sea lions
  • Diving around Catalina, and Cano Islands
  • Search for the bull sharks of Bat Island
  • Chance of megafauna including humpback
Day 1: 
The Nautilus Explorer will be berthed in Marina Bahia Golfito. It’s beautiful. We imagine you will be excited to board, but please give our hardworking crew time to get the ship turned around, cleaned, fuelled, provisioned, and ready for you. We ask that you take advantage of the local facilities and not drop by the boat until 6:30 pm. We don’t mean to be rude, but it would be much appreciated if you could avoid coming by early to say “hi.” Boarding will begin after 6:30 pm, and we will sail by 8 pm to Corcovado National Park.

Day 2: 
Caño Island is an excellent visit, and your trip starts out with a heavy day of diving or snorkelling, and kayaking. The island is a protected national park, and it’s beautiful. In 2023 we had great luck with humpback whale encounters, and we saw hammerhead, white, and black-tip reef sharks; mobula and cownose rays; southern stingrays; moray eels; schooling barracuda; sea turtles; and loads and loads of fish, along with coral reefs and a mix of pinnacles, walls, and drop-offs.

Days 3-5: 
For the next 3 days, we will be based out of Drake Bay and the Osa Peninsula, mixing it up with a combination of cool shore expeditions plus more diving, snorkelling, and kayaking. Nearby Corcovado National Park is one of the most pristine parks in Costa Rica, including beautiful deserted white sand beaches, old-growth forests, and the chance for rarely seen animals. It’s wet, rugged, and remote.

It’s the only place in Costa Rica where you can see 4 different species of monkeys, including the highly endangered red-backed squirrel monkey. Your naturalist is amazing at spotting nearby critters, which might include wild pigs, tapirs, flocks of scarlet macaw parrots, sloths, and crocodiles in the largest mangroves in Central America. While we won’t see them all, the park is home to 40 species of frogs, more than 100 species of butterflies, and over 375 species of birds, including 16 species of hummingbirds.

Going ashore is like being in a fantasy where you land on the beach by inflatable boat for a hike in the rainforest and waterfalls to emerge onto another beautiful sand beach with your crew waiting with drinks and snacks at the ready.

Day 6: 
Arrival back at the Golfito marina by 5 am for those catching the early morning Sansa flight. Early breakfast and 7 am departure for guests heading back to San Jose in our courtesy shuttle (to arrive at SJO by 1 pm at the latest). Or a more leisurely 8:30 am disembarkation for those who are staying on in Golfito or heading off for another adventure in one of the nearby national parks. 

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.

Transfer details

Departure

08:00pm

Marina Bahia Golfito

Juan Santamaria international Airport: SJO; Golfito Airport: GLF

Return

08:30am

Marina Bahia Golfito

Golfito Airport: GLF; Juan Santamaria international Airport: SJO

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