Tortuga Bay

Tortuga Bay is located on the Santa Cruz Island, about a 20-minute walk from the main water taxi dock in Puerto Ayora. The walking path is 1.55 miles (2,490 m) and is open from six in the morning to six in the evening. Visitors must sign in and out at the start of the path with the Galapagos Park Service office. Tortuga Bay has a gigantic, perfectly preserved beach that is forbidden to swimmers and is preserved for the wildlife where many marine iguanas, galapagos crabs and birds are seen dotted along the volcanic rocks. There is a separate cove where you can swim where it is common to view white tip reef sharks swimming in groups & on occasion tiger sharks

There are always a large variety of small fish, birds, including the brown pelican and gigantic galápagos tortoise. The Galápagos Islands were discovered in 1535, but first appeared on the maps, of Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570. The islands were named "Insulae de los Galopegos" (Islands of the Tortoises) in reference to the giant tortoises found there.

Tortuga Bay Galapagos

Opuntia echios in the way to the bay.

Walking path to Tortuga Bay (almost at the beach).

Galapagos brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis urinator) in Tortuga Bay.

Closeup of a marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) in Tortuga Bay.

Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on the beach at Tortuga Bay.

(Amblyrhynchus cristatus) in Tortuga Bay.

Tortuga Bay Volcanic Rocks.

Volcanic Rocks & Grapsus grapsus Galapagos crabs (Tortuga Bay).

Tourist in the beach.

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