It is 12:30 pm and another 75km/40 NM miles to
go, San Benedicto Island in sight, we are being escorted by bottlenose and white
sided dolphins.
Our crossing has been fantastic! Flat surface,
barely wind blowing, no swells and of course a sunny day!
Las Cuevas dive site was the end of our
long journey, from the surface we are able to see the big boulders at 18m/60ft
of water. Immediately jack fish
started to congregate under the boat, we are standing on the swim step ready to
do our giant stride entry when a silky shark swims by at 2m/6ft below surface,
finally we jumped into, nice surface water temp 25℃/77℉, using the aid of a
descent line we got to 15m/ 50ft, rapidly water temp changed decreasing a few
degrees 23℃/73℉, we did some swim along the boulders area to stretch legs,
Giant Electric Rays, Lobster, Diamond Head sting rays, a few white tip sharks
were there for us, it was time to come back up shallower where the water felt a
lot warmer right away! The caves were packed with Burrito Grunts, lobsters
walking along the bottom rocks, other areas were nice to see with lots of very healthy hard
coral. A friendly green turtle swims by and a sting ray
chased it away!
50 Red Tail Trigger Fish just
swimming in circles in such a small area! So it was a nice relaxed check out dive
getting ready for tomorrow’s dive.
We are spending the night in the south area of
the Island called El Cañon, it is 20:30 we already have 6 to 8 silky sharks
around the Solmar V, not visible yet but dolphins are near by we can hear the
slapping of the surface with their tails.
Dive Inst, Daniel Zapata, Solmar V.
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