Hola Everbody!
Just to let you know that our second day at Roca Partida was amazing! We had 100+ visibility all day long, water temp in the low 70's with a bit of current from the WNW. The normal surge near the rock was there as usual, riding it is fun!
Most of the first dive took place on the northern point. As we were making our descent along the wall, another wall of pacific creole fish welcomed us! We got down to 90' and not long after a school of 20+ galapagos sharks came in so close our guests couldn't stop taking stills and video. We spent about 20 minutes surrounded by creole fish and galapagos sharks, with some silver tip sharks. We just rode the current along the wall, making for an easy dive. We made sure to stop by the white tip shark stations, the ledges had a lot of baby white tips about 6" long, and on other ledges we found juveniles and pregnant females!
For our second dive we started from the northwest heading south, spending a little bit more time out in the blue. We found some hammerheads, but they were mixed in a school of over 30 galapagos sharks! After following the sharks for a little bit we spent some time against the wall. We found a lot of green morey eels, octopus, and curious redtail triggerfish! It was 54 minutes of great diving!
What can I say about our 3rd dive? We started at the north point where there were a lot of galapagos sharks coming from all directions. So we played the "shark game" 4 to 5 silver tips joined the party swimming a bit aggressively. There were lots of bigeye trevali the water temp dropped a little on our afternoon dive, but the west side of the rock is still beautiful. The green and brown coloration of the hard coral on the rock, lobsters, steel pompanos, everything is here.
It was such a fantastic day at roca, we're staying here for a third day!
INST. DANIEL ZAPATA
No comments:
Post a Comment