Vicente Roca Point

Vicente Roca Point sits on Isabela's northwestern tip where the cold Cromwell Current wells up directly against the island's volcanic shoreline, creating a nutrient highway that attracts some of the ocean's most unusual visitors. This is one of the most reliable sites in the world to encounter ocean sunfish (Mola mola) — the planet's heaviest bony fish — drifting in the thermocline alongside Pacific seahorses clinging to black coral. The dramatic underwater topography of lava tubes, arches, and overhangs shelters seahorses, frogfish, and ghost pipefish in the colder, murkier shallows.