We had a great day of diving today, with Josie and Cuco from BEX in the Pato Buzo helping us around Espiritu Santo Island. Today was the first day that Los Islotes opened again for the summer and there were lots of young sea lion pups, playful as always. Also some big schools of sardines. The Fang Ming had lots of fish and it was turtle central, with lots of hawksbill turtles living around the artificial reef.
Read MoreDeparted Cabo last night around 2030hrs and arrived in Roca Montana at the south end of Cerralvo at 0730. Did our briefings, gear set-up, and check-out dive before lunch. The dive was nice, it’s a nice easy, shallow reef. Not a lot of fish but in certain areas the divers found some schooling snapper, some zebra eels, and green morays. We also saw a manta at the surface, and one of our guests who was snorkeling got to see it while snorkeling. So it was a nice start. Now we are heading to La Reinita (carpenter rock) for our afternoon dives. Tonight we’ll head to Las Animas and spend the day there.
Read MoreAfter lunch, we went to La Reina, another dive site. There we got lucky with some super friendly turtles hanging out with us while above us a small group of sea lions was playing at the surface.
To top off the beautiful day we did a sunset dive. This is one of the best times of the day for a dive because I love to see how the reef changes. The day creatures are looking for a safe place to spend the night and the night creatures are starting to roam around.
Read MoreWe are diving the lighthouse near San Francisquito, with the sea lions, this morning we did a Mangrove tour, they enjoyed the ride, they were able to see some of the water birds in the area, then we move to Isla Lobos to make a dive, water conditions were really good visibility, little current to the north, surface flat as a table, now we are here to make two dives then we are gonna move the boat back to Isla Lobos to make the night dive.
Read MoreThe first and second dives were good we are getting ready for the third dive, guests for the second dive asked to go to where we dove the first dive, they loved it so we did it again, they had an amazing time with the fish turtles and all the little creatures they found, some of the guests are good at spotting what is going on on the reef like the triggerfish mating or the spawning coral, a couple of the sea lion came down to play with guests. No current easy diving.
Read MoreThe Gulf of California also called the Sea of Cortez is well known to be one of the best places in the world to do whale watching during the winter months (from November to March). However, in our past expeditions during this summer, we have witnessed countless species of whales and toothed whales!
Read MoreToday was our first day in the Sea of Cortez. Although we were scheduled to visit la Isla de Guadalupe, when that trip was cancelled, the entire Nautilus team worked so hard to open up this trip to the Sea of Cortez. We are so appreciative of all of the time, work, and generosity that went into this alternative trip.
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