Carly is the person you’ll deal with from your first question to your flight home. She’s Australian, with a marketing degree and a career that ran through Adelaide before she left to travel the world a decade ago. She came to the Galápagos, met Paco, and never left. She now lives on the islands with Paco and their two daughters.

She runs Nautica Blu day to day, and every inquiry comes to her personally. She’s the one who answers your email, gets on a call to understand what your group wants, lines up the right vessel and dates, and stays with the details all the way through to the morning you fly home. There’s no call center, and no handoff to an account manager you’ve never met.

That’s deliberate. A private charter is a big trip and a serious amount of money, and the people booking one want to know exactly who’s looking after it. With Nautica Blu, you always do.

Carly writes most of what’s in Field Notes, so if you’ve read something there, that was her.

Paco is the reason most people find Nautica Blu. He was born and raised in Ecuador and has spent his career as a naturalist guide in the Galápagos, including years guiding expedition voyages in these waters. He knows the islands, the wildlife, and the way a good week on the water comes together better than almost anyone.

He co-founded Nautica Blu with Carly after years of the same conversation. Guests who’d sailed with him, fallen for the islands, and wanted to come back privately with their family or their closest friends. Nautica Blu is the answer to that. A way to bring people back to the Galápagos on their own terms, on their own boat.

Paco knows the operators we work with, and many of their crews, from inside the industry. That’s exactly why we feel comfortable putting your group on any vessel in our fleet. He helps shape every trip we plan.