Tag: Nautilus Explorer

We are headed back to port. I did not know what to expect on my first liveaboard trip, but any expectations that did float around in my head were far exceeded. Every person on the staff was fantastic, helpful, thoughtful, and kind. They even noticed that I was also interested in the nonmarine life of the region and offered to take me on a skiff around the small islands so I could get some photographs of the birds, as well as the seals and sea lions basking on the shores. One trip was only the group of three I came with and another time completely by myself. Despite a busy schedule, they made doing all of this possible without missing a dive. The diving was also fantastic. A few dives with very playful sea lions and fur seals, an incredible amount of interesting fish, eels, rays, snails, nudibranchs, shrimp, etc… Oh I didn’t mention we started our trip by snorkeling with sperm whales and mobula rays!

Had a spectacular night dive last night! So much interesting life, including an enormous turtle and two moray eels hunting. It was the first-night diving for our two teenage kids and divemaster Juan David was more than patient and kind, he made an extra effort to make them comfortable and to teach them about the […]