Bored with Grizzly Bears…

By on July 2nd, 2008 in Archive

Imagine being anchoring between a gorgeous 150 foot high waterfall off the bow and a pile of snow 250 feet high off the stern while hemmed into a narrow fjord with steeply rising sides that start with hemlock and fir trees 150 feet high in beautiful, different hues of green and then rises up to snowfields and jagged granite mountain peaks 3000 feet above. Incredible stuff. To top it off, picture a good looking grizzly bear grazing in the sedge grass 400 feet from the Nautilus Explorer.

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Shredder – Our Favourite Tattered and Beat-Up Great White Shark

By on September 27th, 2007 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

White shark sightings and behaviour today were very good although I would describe it as the slowest day of this trip. We had a steady stream of sharks swimming past the cages. Sightings included “Snow White,” “Shredder,” “Rocket,” 1 medium female that we couldn’t identify (even with the help of Mauricio, our favourite Mexican shark scientist), and one very big and very clean and beautiful momma female that we think might be “Sarah.” Unlike last year, we haven’t seen much of “Bruce” –  he has been by a couple of times but has not been making daily visits the way he did last season.

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It’s a wrap for this year with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island

By on October 17th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

Well, it’s a wrap for this year with the great white sharks of Guadalupe Island. We are en route from Guadalupe to Ensenada, Mexico to disembark our last shark trip before steaming south to Cabo San Lucas and the first of our Sea of Cortez trips…

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Super hot diving this morning with great white sharks

By on October 16th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

The diving is super hot this morning, with great white sharks continuously around the back of the Nautilus Explorer. The last day and a half were quiet with sporadic sightings (although our first afternoon was good), but the winds have died down and the white sharks are back with a vengeance.

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A flurry of white shark activity

By on October 14th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

Had a flurry of white shark activity first thing this morning but it’s quiet now. I’m hoping for the usual dinner hour flurry with white sharks showing up “on their way home” between 1630 and 1830. One of this morning’s white sharks showed really interesting adaptive behaviour when it went for the shark wrangler’s line rather than the tuna bait – as we snapped the tuna out of the path of the white shark, the bait went straight into its mouth! Clever huh!?

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Boarded the last of our 2006 great white shark expeditions

By on October 13th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

We boarded the last of our 2006 great white shark expeditions last night and I am anticipating a 19 hour run to Guadalupe in a moderate sea. The skies are clear today and I am hoping that I might see the green flash at sunset.

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Fantastic conditions today enroute from Guadalupe

By on October 12th, 2006 in Archive, Captain Mike, Guadalupe

We just finished drifting with a loose pod of blue whales off Ensenada. I’m pretty sure that one of them came over to check us out – there we were drifting along with the engines out of gear when an enormous one (and these guys really are ENORMOUS) surfaced and blew 50ft off the side of the boat. He surprised the heck out of all of us. It was great!!

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