A small humpback whale kept jumping out of the water and everyone was cheering.. It was really fun. February 24, 2010. Guest log.

The San Benedicto Island Experience: Circling mantas (harassing Mike, meditating with Christophe), turtle nibbling on Christophs fin, hammerhead sharks on a cleaning break, patrolling silkies, silky tete-a-tete out in the blue with Christoph, underwater soundtrack featuring the humpback symphony orchestra of San Benedicto island – and on the surface: snorkeling with the (humpback) family… Do not come over the calf or you will freak out the mother, Christophe!
Maski, Silky, Lachsi
Evangelia: Upon arrival to San Benedicto Island we saw from the boat many humpback whales coming up to the surface and swimming around, then a giant manta passed right under us and then 5-6 dolphins were swimming and jumping out of the water, making the 24 hour trip already sooooo worth it!!! A small whale kept jumping out of the water and everyone was cheering, it was really fun! The dives were also very cool: on the second dive we saw the friendliest manta and it was playing around with everyone, swimming with us doing circles, many of the divers were touching it and tickling it and it really seemed like it was having fun! It was like a puppy playing with us, very funny and cute. But at the same time it was so graceful and beautiful the way it was swimming it was great 🙂 And on the third dive we saw a big silky shark swimming right past us, ignoring us completely (thankfully :)) and another silver tip shark. They were really beautiful. We also saw a couple of mantas passing below us and many moray eels, one of them was swimming and was quite big! over all it was a great day 😀
No humpback whales sightings in the water yet though we could hear them singing very loudly during all the dives, maybe tomorrow! Talk to you again in a couple of days. Filakia.
Thierry: Apres 24 h de navigation dans un ocean calme mais qui faisait tout de meme bouger le bateau d’un bord a l’autre 😉 , nous avons atteint l’ile de San Benedicto ce matin vers 10 h a 240 miles (450 km) au sud de Cabo San Lucas. A 11 h notre premiere plongee nous faisait rencontrer une 15aine de requins marteaux et une raie manta. Pour la seconde plongee, nous avons ete accompagnes par la raie manta pendant toute la duree de la plongee. Bien sur les 2 Frenchies (Renaud et Moi) n’avons pas pu nous retenir de la caresser a chacun de ses passages au ras de nos tetes, j’ai meme un peu plane sur elle. Enfin la 3eme plongee de la journee fut plus calme, puisque nous n’avons rencontre qu’un requin marteau et un requin pointe grise. Cela dit nous etions berces pendant la plongee par le chant des baleines. Depuis notre arrivee ce matin, elles sont tout autour de nous. Elles sautent joyeusement autour du bateau et viennent ensuite se promener le long du bateau. D’ailleurs 3 perso
nnes ont meme eu la chance d’aller nager avec elles. Dommage que je doive proteger encore un peu mes oreilles car j’y serais bien alle aussi, ce sera pour la prochaine fois 😉
Bref le voyage commence sous de bons hospices. Le bateau est vraiment agreable, l’equipage, excellent, est toujours a nos petits soins aussi bien pendant les plongees qu’entre elles. Nous avons meme un jaccuzi a disposition. La meteo est parfaite pour l’instant, et devrait le rester pendant la semaine ce qui nous permettra de rester 4 jours ici, puis d’aller passer les 2 derniers jours encore plus loin sur le site de Rocca Partida. La suite dans 2 jours, lors de la prochaine connexion satellite….