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WyoScout
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Seasickness on tours to Seymour and Bartolome
7 Jan 2025, 2:28 am

We are a family of five with kids ages 12-18 and are planning a land-based trip to Santa Cruz. I would like to book day trips to Seymour and Bartolome islands, but two of three kids get quite seasick. They are both fine in protected water, but get sick out in the open water (for example, deep sea fishing). We have used motion sickness meds with varying degrees of success. I know that no one can predict the waves on any given day, but generally, how you found the passages to Seymour and Bartolome?

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SASFall91
Augusta, Maine
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1. Re: Seasickness on tours to Seymour and Bartolome
7 Jan 2025, 9:11 pm

I’ve been there 3x and don’t know that I have done those specific trips but wouldn’t consider any that I have done there as ‘calm.’ Even when the water isn’t that rough, it’s not flat and the boats have powerful motors so you bounce around pretty well.

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SOoneXR
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2. Re: Seasickness on tours to Seymour and Bartolome
9 Jan 2025, 12:12 am

We did North Seymour but not Bartolome. North Seymour was, for lack of a better term, a putt-putt tour compared to a couple of others we took. Pretty calm the day we went. Seems like we just idled around Baltra to North Seymour. For being a quick trip it was one of our favorites while in the Galapagos.

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