Hola Everyone!
Today was the day! We jumped in our pangas at 8 am ready to go to the famous Roca Partida, we entered the water on the east side of the island we encountered whitetip reef sharks free swimming along the wall and in between hundreds of jacks, thousands of creole fish and all the inhabitants of Roca, we tried to head to the north point but the strong northeast current didn't let us do too much, only one group could make it to the north point and saw a group of about 15 bottlenose dolphins with a lot of babies in the pod, they said it was fantastic! Later on we drifted with the current and finished our first dive of the day in blue water.
By the second dive the conditions were still the same, the current still on so we decided to stay only in the protected zone to get some shelter, it was fun though because all the whitetips were back in their ledges and we could get tons of pictures and video.
By the third dive we all decided to drop in the east side one more time and staying away of the strong current that was hitting the north point and who would have guessed it! A 45 foot pregnant whale shark was cruising the east side against the current, that was absolutely amazing!! she went across the north point and the other group that was on the west side could see this gentle giant that curiously approached to the divers and later disappear in the deep blue, we could not believe what we had just seen, besides thousands of big yellowfin tunas were cruising by leaded by about 10 bottlenose dolphins and once they were gone we started spotting 1 silver tip shark here, a galapagos shark there and suddenly a group of 30 maybe more galapagos and silver tip sharks together were also cruising by! We could not believe what we had just seen in this last dive in Roca.
We didn't expect to see a whale shark this time a year, but we totally understand and agree that in the ocean and in the Roca Partida field one never knows what they may find..
Stay tuned for more!
Erick
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