On the second day, we had airplane support to help us find orcas and mobula rays around the Sea of Cortez and what did we find instead? A blue whale!
Read MoreThis time, we had pretty good current but no manta ray. Instead, we had a snowstorm of all different kinds of fish.
Read MoreThe best thing is with the spotter plane we were able to find a huge group of dolphins – not hundreds, but thousands and that is no exaggeration. At one point, we saw dolphins as far as we could see in all four directions.
Read MoreIn the last week, we have found mega pods of thousands of dolphins, sardine bait balls, a blue whale, a group of fin whales, we have swam with hundreds of mobula rays that have been aggregating in huge schools and leaping out of the water.
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Less than an hour later, after having already seen a blue marlin breaching, a green sea turtle on the surface and a playful sea lion that came to check us out, we were contacted by Siddarta, the pilot of the “El Peregrino” hydroplane stating that he had spotted a pod of orcas by the San Lorenzo Channel between Balandra/El Tecolote and Espiritu Santo Island.
Read MoreWe received the call that our airplane support had spotted a pod of orcas, so we sped off towards their location. Once we found the pod of orcas, we didn’t have to wait long before half the group was able to get in the water with them.
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It started with a sea lion greeting us in the morning and then a striped marlin jumping out of the water. The mission today was to look for orcas.
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