La Plata North Wall

La Plata North Wall is the primary manta ray cleaning station of Isla de la Plata, where oceanic mantas queue at shallow rocky ridges to be cleaned by angelfish and wrasse. The wall drops from 8 metres to beyond 40 metres with encrusting sponges and black coral, but the real attraction hovers above: giant oceanic mantas with wingspans exceeding 4 metres glide in from open water and circle the cleaning stations with remarkable predictability from June through November. Green sea turtles and Galapagos sea lions also appear in the cooler upwelling months, and whale sharks have been recorded on several occasions during the peak cold-water season.