Here we are again!

What a way to end or trip, with a baitball that lured Bottlenose Dolphins, a bunch of Silky Sharks and 7 Stripped Marlins!

Back in San Benedicto, we started our last day of this trip diving at El Cañón, 7: 15 am and we were descending over the ridge of this famous dive site, the water temp was in the low 70’s and the vis haven’t got better yet, it was still like 30’ max; we headed to the usual cleaning station corner and found a dolphin chasing one of the Bigeye Jacks but that was briefly because both disappeared in the deep, so we kept moving to the next corner expecting to find some hammers but no success, however this previous dolphin came back with one of his friends to keep chasing more jacks, so while we watched this pursuit of the “cat and mouse”  several young Silvertip Sharks starting showing up like in the search of food, that was good!, everybody knelt down on the bottom and started taking stills and video, our bottom time ended with one more time the cat and mouse game. On our way up to the safety stop a group of 5 Mobula Rays entertained one of the diver groups and a finally a schooling hammerheads that showed up from deep entertained another group, unfortunately they were to deep for us at the moment and we couldn’t go back down due our air supply.

We did a second dive at El Cañón but the visibility had got worse and we couldn’t see the sharks properly, but we knew there were hammerheads because we could see at least the silhouettes, probably when the current picks up will bring up clearer water.

Then we moved to El Boiler to end our trip there, while we were heading to the place some of the guys spotted birds gathering together like a mile away of the island, so we got one of our panga ready for onle 10 people that were up for it, the others wanted to play one more time in the trip with Mantas at El Boiler.

So the group of ten that adventured to the horizon got lucky, during all the way out to the point were the birds were going crazy dolphins were guiding the panga to there, showing jumps and bowriding plays.

Once we got up to where the birds were, jumped right away to the water and the first thing we encountered were this dolphins that have been riding with us all the way here, later Silky Sharks starting showing up and gave us a non stop action and a great opportunity to take hundreds of pictures.. Of course the action moved away of us that we had to go back to the panga and try it again and good idea we did again, as soon as we got in 7 Striped Marlins were underneath the boat, that was astonishing, jaw dropping! We could not believe what we were watching, everybody got thrilled to have watched this unique moment! Thumbs up for Crazy Luis our panguero at the moment.

Of course the group that didn’t come had a private manta dance with 2 individuals that had stayed the entire dive with them, dancing and swimming over their heads.

The 4th dive was pretty much and easy going dive, that mantas were not there any longer but there were hundreds of other stuff to watch, massive schools of Black Jacks, Burrito Grunts, hundreds of Green Morays that hide in the ledges of El Boiler and of course a countless Octopuses that inhabit this beautiful site.

Bueno amigos, this is all for this trip, we have to go back to Cabo and get the SolmarV ready for our next trip.

Hasta la próxima

Erick Higuera