After the amount it cost us to dive here (500 pounds in total for 8 dives each) we were looking forward to it and hoping that it would be worth every penny. We weren’t disappointed and would have paid double the price. Our first dives were around the island of Floreana about 90 minutes south from Santa Cruz. And this is what we were hoping to see. What the dive shop said about the dive site. This site is one of the best in the central islands to see coral colonies, such as pebble coral and endemic black coral, sea turtles, sea lions, enticing gauntlet of sea horses, stingrays, eagle rays, turtles, long nose hawkfish, barracudas, pelagic fish, white tip reef sharks, Galapagos sharks, and hammerhead sharks. We didn’t get to see all of the above
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