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. Toruga 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 lava rocks. There is a separate cove where you can swim where it is common to view white tip reef sharks swimming in groups, small fish, birds, and gigantic galápagos tortoise.

Tortuga Bay Galapagos

Additional images

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  Start of the Walking path to Tortuga Bay
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  Walking path to Tortuga Bay with the Pacific Ocean in view
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  End of the Walking path to Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos Island of Santa Cruz
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  Tortuga Bay - Island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos
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  Iguana on the beach at Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos on the Island of Santa Cruz
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  Amblyrhynchus cristatus on the lava rocks at Tortuga Bay.
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  Marine Iguana - Amblyrhynchus cristatus, on the beach at Tortuga Bay
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  Lava rocks on Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos
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  Crab walking on the beach at Tortuga Bay
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  Grapsus grapsus Multi Color Crab walking on the lava rocks on Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos
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  Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos showing Lava Rocks and the Surf
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  A gigantic galapagos tortuga - Chelonoidis nigra, next to the walking path to Tortuga Bay
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  Whitetip reef shark - Triaenodon obesus, in the Galapagos Island of Santa Cruz
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  Birds - Aves in the water at Tortuga Bay

References

• Galapagos Nacional Park, Tortuga Bay http://www.galapagospark.org/sitio.php?page=bahia_tortuga ecuador-travel.net
• Tortuga Bay, Galapagos http://www.ecuador-travel.net/galapagos.site.tortugabay.htm
• Galapagos Nacional Park on galapagos.org http://www.galapagos.org

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