HAY CARAMBA!!!! Bait ball right on the surface!

Hi everyone from the amazing Roca Partida!

Before I talk about our incredible day of diving, I have to mentinon that we woke up to a beautiful sunrise over the bow of the Solmar V with Roca as the background, what a way to start a day!

For our first dive we went around Roca starting on the east side then north and back to south on the west side,along the beautiful wall. Along the tour we encountered lots of cottonmouth jacks doing all type of formations from depth to shallow water, off the rock we also saw yellow fin tunas, a silky shark was there to say Hi all! On the north point at 90ft of water we ran into 2 Galapagos Shark, and we had dolphins for about 3 minutes! The west side always nice with those big lobsters, octopus hiding in the hard coral, lots of baby white tip sharks, time for a 3 minutes safety stop drifting along in this mild current, so nice dont have to swim at all! We had a mild current from south, water temp 73f and vis of 100ft(+).

The second dive took place on the south point, the advantage of this south point is that here we don't feel the current and we see everything coming around!!  The big black jacks at Roca aren't shy at all, they come very close, sometimes they even come right up to your lens for that perfect photo! Redtail trigger fish do so too, many many of them, we also saw lots of pacific creolefish, green moray eels, and lobster too! We found a really sea urchin with long black spines and when we can find a cleverly hidden octopus, they are a joy to play with!

We were enjoying a beautiful day on board of Solmar v and almost ready to go for our third dive, when we spotted 3 humpback  whales! We jumped in the pangas to get a closer look, but they disappeared before we could get much closer.  On our way back to the boat, we saw birds flying over an area, so we went to investigate we went there and HAY CARAMBA!!!! Bait ball right on the surface! There were too many Silky sharks to count, plus a lot of yellow fin tunas, and mahi mahi all feeding on this ball of fish!! We spent 20 minutes snorkeling there! We had perfect conditions on all our dives! 

So we are closing our diving day with a breathtaking sunset and after a day like today, we are definitely staying for another day at Roca! 
    Dive Inst. Daniel Zapata