Playa Ochoa

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Playa Ochoa

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Site Location

San Cristobal Island

Activity Level

Easy

Duration

2 hours

SITE OVERVIEW

Slip off your flip flops and enjoy a pleasant outing at Ochoa Beach. This beautiful beach, just 30 minutes from Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, offers an excellent introduction to the Galápagos Islands. Some of the wildlife present in the area include sea lions, blue-footed boobies, Sally Lightfoot crabs, along with many other shorebirds. Also keep an eye out for the endemic San Cristobal mockingbird in the lagoons behind the beach. After your stroll through the area, why not jump into the water and enjoy some snorkeling in this peaceful and protected cove?

Destination San Cristobal Island
Activities • Beach
• Snorkeling
Inhabitants No
Type of Landing Wet landing
Tours Allowed Land based or cruise ship

LOCATION

FAUNA

Brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis - ES
Ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres
Blue footed booby Sula nebouxii - ES
Galapagos sea lion Zalophus wollebaeki - E
Great frigatebird Fregata minor
Swallow tailed gull Creagrus furcatus
San Cristobal lava lizard Microlophus bivittatus - E
San Cristobal mockingbird Mimus melanotis
Marine iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus - E
Lava heron Butorides sundevalli
Yellow-crowned night heron Nyctanassa violacea - ES
King angelfish Holacanthus passer -N
Lava gull Leucophaeus fuliginosus - E
Mexican hogfish Bodianus diplotaenia - N
Panamic sergeant major Abudefduf troschelii -N
Red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus
Razor surgeonfish Prionurus laticlavius -N
Least sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Yellowtail mullet Mugil rammelsbergi Tschudi - N
Yellow snapper Lutjanus argentiventris - N

FLORA

Cut-leafed scalesia Scalesia incisa - E
Galapagos lantana Lantana peduncularis - E
Stickleaf Mentzelia aspera - N
Galapagos clubleaf Nolana galapagensis - E
Matazarno Piscidia carthagenensis - N
Galapagos carpetweed Sesuvium edmonstonei - E
Grey matplant Tiquilia nesiotica - E
Galapagos spurge Chamaesyce spp. - E
Common carpetweed Sesuvium portulacastrum - N
Thread-leafed chaff flower Alternanthera filifolia - N
Puncture Weed Tribulus cistoides - N
Muyuyu Cordia lutea - N
Spiny Bush Scutia spicata var. pauciflora - E
Saltbush Cryptocarpus pyriformis - N
Prickly pear cactus Opuntia cactaceae - E
Galapagos lantana Lantana peduncularis - E
Galapagos shore petunia Exodeconus miersii - E

SITE GALLERY

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