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[*] posted on 9-19-2009 at 05:27 AM
A few pleasant surprises


It seems that yet again I am reporting on another week of exceptional diving conditions here on the East Cape. We've headed south to Cabo Pulmo every day and been rewarded with crystal clear blue seas with visibility way in excess of 120 feet and bottom temperatures averaging 88' Fahrenheit, does it get any better?! We had the opportunity to snorkel with a pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphins; we gently lowered ourselves into the water expecting the briefest of glimpses at best and ended up spending the best part of half an hour observing these fascinating beasts, what a sight to behold! We've had another Tiger Shark sighting at Esperanza reef, this time it ghosted past us half way through the dive and then we spent the rest of the time wondering from where it would come from next but alas it wasn't to be. At Islote two of our guests avidly recalled disturbing a Turtle as they made their way through a short swim-through, it rapidly sped away leaving them no chance of taking a photo. We've also had another Giant Manta encounter, this time we spent over an hour snorkeling at the surface as it slowly circled beneath us. Several times it rolled over onto it's back and flashed it's white belly at us; the fluidity and grace of movement never fails to leave me breathless and this was to be no exception. So once again the Sea of Cortez has thrown a few pleasant surprises at us to go along with the usual assortment of Leopard and Golden Grouper, schools of Yellow Snapper and Grunts, Porkfish, Parrotfish and beautifully lit up hard corals that make up this incredible area to dive. Sue Cooper who dives with us regularly summed up Cabo Pulmo with this comment, "I have been diving in Cozumel, Fiji and Key Largo since I last dived at the East Cape, but, for me, it's all about the fish and none of those places have the numbers of fish one sees at the East Cape."

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