Guess what?! Today was “The Sharky Day”, after having a great day in Roca Partida, we moved to San Benedicto Island to do the last diving day and finish our trip. Waking up back in El Cañón, there were already our friendly pod of dolphins playing and waiting for us at the surface, so, we kicked down the line facing a strong northeast current that was bringing up 60’ visibility of clear water with 75°F, knowing that the conditions were perfect for us because our chances to see big schools of hammerheads were high! In fact, we hadn’t even left the anchor when a group of 12 hammerheads were cruising the blue, suddenly 2 dolphins swam like rockets and we realized that were chasing a Bigeye Jack for breakfast, but this jacks are smart enough and have and amazing escape strategy that when they feel themselves that the predator is going to get them, right in the last second this jacks throw up what have eaten, it could be sardines or mackerels and distract and keeps the enemy entertained while the jacks escape. After watching this game of the cat and the smart mouse, we finally got to the cleaning station and a massive school of 100+ hammerheads was already swimming over the reef, so we all hold on the rocks and wait for the school to swim over our heads, it was outstanding seeing a surface covered of this beautiful sharks!. Later on we spotted a galapagos shark shape like but when it got close to us we confirmed what it was an 11’ Tiger shark, that surprised one of the divers making him to drop his regulator for such a big surprise! Of course he put his regulator back in his mouth right away, it was hilarious. Back on the Solmar V and getting dry to relax and do our surface interval, one of the divers asked the divemasters what were a big group of bobbies and frigate birds doing in the horizon, we decided to grab our snorkeling gear, jumped on the pangas and went to check it out, when we got out there we found a bait ball full of silkies, about 50 sharks that were still hunting a small group of baby jacks, it was a first class adventure!
On our second dive we saw the same school of hammerheads but this time were swimming away of the reef, on the way back to the safety stop a Manta swam by and stay briefly playing with the bubbles of one of the divers.
By the third dive, the hammerheads were gone but few juveniles silver tip sharks came to the cleaning station to visit the butterfly fishes that keep them nice and clean, also we enjoyed the hundreds of Green Morays and Lobsters that inhabit the crevices of El Cañón. We are heading back to Cabo San Lucas to relax and chill out for couple days before to start another Great Wild Adventure aboard the Solmar V.
Hasta la próxima amigos!!
Erick
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