As with most the dive sites in the Galapagos the yellowtailed surgeonfish is abundant here, but you are also likely to see streamer hogfish, Pacific burrfish, schools of yellowtail grunts, endemic grunts, many big groups of butterflyfish (barberfish), king angelfish, moorish idols, trigger fish, surgeon fish, and schools of barracuda.

In the rubble build up on the sandy bottom look for tiger snake eels crawling through the piles of rocks, starfish, and flower anemones.

In the deeper area of about 65 feet the sandy white bottom is home to hundreds of garden eels. You might also see a couple of the tiger snake eels swimming freely (until you try to take their picture, when they will burrow their way into the sand). If you wait by the rocks you might be lucky enough to see spotted eagle rays cruising in solo or in groups. Turtles are common here sometime surrounded by steel pampanos who are eating off the turtle's back.

Since this dive is one of the first during your Lammer Law trip, this may be your first opportunity to see hammerheads. Under the rocky ledges you'll find marbled rays, sleeping white-tips, and huge pufferfish. Keep watching even as you ascend to your safety stop. Spotted eagle rays cruise in groups all along as if they are waving good-bye.


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