It was a small pod of eight orcas, including a massive and intimidating male and a mother with her calf. At some point, the male noticed our presence and he flipped with curiosity and started following us, we couldn’t believe it! Even though the group was traveling together, the mother and a young female remained on the side with the newborn to protect it and teach him how the group works.
Read MoreWe had several great in-water encounters with the orcas where they approached the guests and circled back around a couple of times, oftentimes coming face-to-face with the snorkelers.
Read MoreThe orca and mobulas safari up the Sea of Cortez has to be the most exciting trip I have been part of as a Nautilus crew. From the moment the sun rises, until well after it sets behind the cactus of the Baja coast, we are looking eagerly for all the wildlife we can find in these waters…and there is plenty! Thanks to our airplane giving support, we could spot a pod of six to eight orcas yesterday. After a short ride, we ended up being the only boat around that orca family, who cruised at a languid pace for 3 hours, allowing us to jump more than 10 times, and have a close look at them and them at us. As I was maneuvering the Galant lady ahead of the tender, to keep track of the pod, the whole family of orcas surrounded the boat. It was insane! the size of these orcas is impressive, their rounded shape and brilliant black and white skin, they truly are the pandas of the ocean! They were so close to the boat that taking turns, captain Gordon and I were able to jump in for a swim with these beautiful animals.
Read Moreentana and we had a free-diving 101 session, then loaded into Inde 2 just as Katie and Scarlett were taking off to scope things out for us. It wasn’t long after they took off that they found a pod of Orcas on the NE side of Cerralvo and we all started heading there as fast as possible. Inde 2 arrived ahead of the NGL to find a pod of eight or nine Orcas,
Read Mores. We enjoyed a nice show from the boat with the dolphins, then left them to go snorkel with a school of 1-200 mobulas that were jumping nearby. Turned out to be a very friendly group of mobulas and the guests spent an hour and a half snorkeling with them, barely moving to keep up as they just circled and circled the snorkelers
Read MoreWe just finished the first here at Canyon and it was great, a lot of sharks around at the cleaning station including some big Galapagos, hammerheads, silver-tips, and even a tiger shark. Guests also enjoyed a friendly giant manta on their safety stop that came by to hang out for a little while.
Read MoreThere are a lot of mantas around at the surface feeding, just from the boat this morning we could easily count eight giant mantas at the surface feeding. During the dive, the highlight was a huge school of hammerheads, one of the biggest schools we’ve seen here in a long time, with approx. 100 hammerheads swimming by well within good visual range of everyone.
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