Great White Sharks Decide to Stay Deep

Location: Lighthouse Bay, Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico

Comments: They say fortune favors the brave and on this trip they sure were right. The trip to Guadalupe Island was perfect, with a downhill wind helping us along the way. However, the wind that was so kind to us on the way in was to prove tricky today.

We woke up to a moody and overcast sky with a strong wind blowing around the north end of the island. The waves created by wind and the 3 foot swell made for a difficult first few hours, with guests catching only fleeting glimpses down deep of the great white sharks. We initially anchored at Captain Mikeโ€™s famous โ€œsweet spotโ€ but decided that it would be best to move to Mikeโ€™s โ€œbackup-swell-in-the-anchorage-the-white-sharks-are-swimming-too-deepโ€ waypoint.

We made a slow bell north and tucked into the island โ€“ the drop in the swell was immediately noticeable and within a few minutes our brave and hardy guests were back in the comfort of cages. Whilst the action on the surface was a little less frantic than previous trips, our guests all seemed to exit the cages with a big smile with very good white shark sightings very close to the cages. Hopefully the big smiles werenโ€™t simply because the sparkling clear hot tub was waiting for them along with a lovely hostess and her drink tray!!

โ€“DM Buzz

 

Weather: High level thick clouds. 10-15 knots of wind. 3 foot swell.  Air temperature with the wind chill in the low 70ยฐF

Water: Water temperature 68ยฐF, visibility of around 100 feet.

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