Welcome to Guadalupe Island! Situated in deep water off the continental shelf of North America, the history of Guadalupe Island is rich with Spanish and Portuguese explorers, pirates, gold and the Manila galleons, rapacious American and Russian sealers and fur traders. We love Guadalupe Island and hope that you will come to feel the same way. This volcanic island is estimated to be 8 million years old!!
Read MoreThe crew is so friendly that if you’re not diving they will take you out on a private skiff ride and show you lions mane jelly fish and sea stars and you can have your very own sea otter. Alisan Today was an awesome day for non-divers – 3 skiff tours – otters, whales, sealions […]
Read MoreLocation: Inian Islands, Icy Strait, southeast Alaska. Let’s see. Puffins. Transient orcas (killer whales). Humpback whales. Stellar sealions. Sea-otters. Bald eagles. Oyster catchers. Nesting cormorants with baby chicks. Recently discovered and still unnamed soft coral consisting of 50% of the biomass at some dive sites. This is an amazing place. And my description above doesn’t […]
Read MoreDive bombed by a stellar sealion. I was dive bombed by a bull stellar sealion while a female chewed on my fins pulling in opposite directions. I started the dive 5’1″ and ended 5’10”. Hahhahah. Yesterday I saw a sea otter playing with and eating an octopus.. Michele Hall I thought a sealion was […]
Read MorePoint Adolphus and Icy Strait, southeast Alaska I saw a wolf eel on a wall today. And when he left his spot he went phhhssssshhhhtt straight down. Howard I saw 3 orange peel nudibranchs in a row that were the size of footballs. My computer showed 42 degrees but Captain Mike doesn’t believe me (I figure 44 degrees […]
Read MoreBreaching humpback whales, sea otters and stellar sealions. I loved the sea otter, the sea otter was sooo gorgeous.. he was scratching here there and everywhere, front legs, back legs, face and nose!!! – Dobby Humpback whales breaching, tail lobbing and generally hanging out for ages, a grizzly bear, sea otters, bald eagles, sea lions and a Fab dive […]
Read MoreLooking back at my circumnavigation of Vancouver Island May 23 – June 1, 2009 So it was about 4:30 pm on Saturday when we arrived on the dock in Steveston for our dive trip that would take us around Vancouver Island. Our trip had been a long time coming as we had to book the […]
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