Generations guiding generations.
Our family’s story in the Galapagos began around 1957 — long before there was a national park — with a cattle venture on the wild volcanic coast of Isabela. Three generations later, we’re still here: naturalist guides born and raised among these islands, reading the land and the ocean the way only a lifetime here allows. This is the story of how a family made the Galapagos home.
Rodrigo Jácome
The First Guide
Drawn by his father’s extraordinary stories, Rodrigo became a naturalist guide in 1984 — one of the last to know the Galapagos in its true era of exploration. A rare botanist among guides, he taught the family to read the whole landscape, not just the wildlife.
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Daniel Jácome
The Bridge
Raised on the trails before he ever held a license, he inherited his father’s botanist’s eye and reads the ocean as fluently as the land — the bridge between the old era of exploration and today’s era of conservation.
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Alan Jácome
The Ocean
Rodrigo’s youngest son brings fresh energy to the family’s expeditions. A certified dive and freedive instructor, Alan opens up the underwater world in a way few guides can — at home beneath the surface as much as on the trail.
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Daniel Jácome Jr.
The Storyteller
A third-generation guide who learned to read the islands from a father who learned from his. Daniel Jr. has worked alongside the BBC on nature productions, bringing a filmmaker’s eye to the wildlife and moments most people never notice.
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Bernardo Jácome
The Naturalist
Part of the family’s third generation, Bernardo grew up immersed in these islands. Today he works the family’s coffee plantation alongside his grandfather Rodrigo — living proof that the family’s bond with the Galapagos is rooted in the land itself.
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