Punta Espinoza

Punta Espinoza is the primary visitor site on Fernandina Island and one of the greatest wildlife concentrations on Earth — the black lava flats above water hold hundreds of marine iguanas in enormous communal basking aggregations, while the surrounding shallow reef teems with Galapagos penguins, sea lions, and eagle rays. Underwater the experience is intimate rather than dramatic: cold, clear water over low lava shelves where penguins rocket past divers hunting fish, sea lions spiral in vertical corkscrews, and marine iguanas graze on the rocky bottom within arms reach. This is the undisputed capital of endemic Galapagos marine wildlife.