onyx
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hi All -
I went to los Cabos Aug 6 - 13, and did 2 days of diving while I was there. Since I heard such great things about Amigos del Mar through this board, I decided I'd do my diving with them. I sauntered over to their office the first full day that I was there, and found them friendly so committed to do 2 days with them, culminating in a trip to Cabo Pulmo. In order to dive cabo pulmo with them, though, they want you do do a day of local diving with them first to make sure that all the equipment works allright and such before driving the 2.5 hours down to cabo pulmo.
Day 1: Two dives around Pelican Rock. Nice dives, kinda crowded, but our guide was cool and good at spotting neat stuff like seahorses, rays, and octopi for our viewing pleasure. Our dive experience in the group varied pretty wildly, so he kept the dives pretty mellow. Vis was good, temp was warm, seas were pretty calm.
Day 2: 2 Dives at cabo pulmo. This was great. We piled into a taxi-van at some gawdawful early hour like 6:45 am (i'm not much of a morning person) and drove the 2.5 hours up the east side of the baja penninsula to cabo pulmo. The drive was scenic, and the van was air conditioned, which was all that really mattered since it was pretty darned hot the entire time I was in los cabos.
The only remaining live reef in the sea of cortez is located at Cabo Pulmo (as I was informed), and it was well worth the drive! It was beatiful! I saw eels galore, more puffers, huge Parrotfish, lobsters, octopi, live reef, huge schools of jacks, as well as limitless other fish that I don't recognize. Well, instead of blathering on about it, here, have a look for yourself. I've got an ofoto album that you can check out with all of the pictures that I took. I haven't edited them...and this was my first time taking my Canon S30 scuba diving, so the pix probably pretty much suck, but it was still fun.
http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=74067806103.38835593503&n=257000068
and log in with username:
mock@sdsc.edu
and password:
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or for video clips see:
http://rewind.sdsc.edu/mock/underwater/caboSL-caboPulmo-aug2002/
after the dives at cabo pulmo, we were fed an awesome fish taco lunch! I nearly killed myself gorging on these! All in all, a great set of dives!
I went to los Cabos Aug 6 - 13, and did 2 days of diving while I was there. Since I heard such great things about Amigos del Mar through this board, I decided I'd do my diving with them. I sauntered over to their office the first full day that I was there, and found them friendly so committed to do 2 days with them, culminating in a trip to Cabo Pulmo. In order to dive cabo pulmo with them, though, they want you do do a day of local diving with them first to make sure that all the equipment works allright and such before driving the 2.5 hours down to cabo pulmo.
Day 1: Two dives around Pelican Rock. Nice dives, kinda crowded, but our guide was cool and good at spotting neat stuff like seahorses, rays, and octopi for our viewing pleasure. Our dive experience in the group varied pretty wildly, so he kept the dives pretty mellow. Vis was good, temp was warm, seas were pretty calm.
Day 2: 2 Dives at cabo pulmo. This was great. We piled into a taxi-van at some gawdawful early hour like 6:45 am (i'm not much of a morning person) and drove the 2.5 hours up the east side of the baja penninsula to cabo pulmo. The drive was scenic, and the van was air conditioned, which was all that really mattered since it was pretty darned hot the entire time I was in los cabos.
The only remaining live reef in the sea of cortez is located at Cabo Pulmo (as I was informed), and it was well worth the drive! It was beatiful! I saw eels galore, more puffers, huge Parrotfish, lobsters, octopi, live reef, huge schools of jacks, as well as limitless other fish that I don't recognize. Well, instead of blathering on about it, here, have a look for yourself. I've got an ofoto album that you can check out with all of the pictures that I took. I haven't edited them...and this was my first time taking my Canon S30 scuba diving, so the pix probably pretty much suck, but it was still fun.
http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?m=74067806103.38835593503&n=257000068
and log in with username:
mock@sdsc.edu
and password:
guest
or for video clips see:
http://rewind.sdsc.edu/mock/underwater/caboSL-caboPulmo-aug2002/
after the dives at cabo pulmo, we were fed an awesome fish taco lunch! I nearly killed myself gorging on these! All in all, a great set of dives!
