Chocoholic
Contributor
Dive Report Sep 1 - 6 2005
I dove for five days with Amigos Del Mar in Cabo San Lucas. One day we went to Cabo Pulmo. The boat that Amigos uses is a wide, stable catamaran with lots of room for stowage, a head, and a dive platform. The water was warm 80 degrees and relatively calm with some surge in areas. The visiblility was just ok, probably 50 feet at the best. We saw Mantas, Mobila, an eagle ray, bulls eye ray and Stingrays. I saw a whole bunch of rays flying overhead near Neptunes Finger, the DM called them Mantas. I saw quite a few fish, lots of different colours, lots of green eels, moray eels, a zebra eel, porcupine fish, Moorish idols, grunts, little barracudas, lobsters, parrotfish, goat fish, sea lions, an arrow crab and many others I cant name yet, also nudibranchs and several sea horses too. We also got into a huge school of jacks, and they swirled around us for some time. The two black tip reef sharks that used to hang out near Pelican Rock were fished out according to the DM. The same DM swears they saw a whale shark in the bay earlier in the summer.
The fish at Cabo Pulmo were huge, mostly the same types of fish as in Cabo San Lucas but much bigger, and loads of eels, porcupine fish and jacks. We did drift dives in Cabo Pulmo since it had a current running, we had to stay along a ledge to keep below it in some areas. The boat used in Cabo Pulmo is a large, high-sided panga, with a ladder over the side, kinda difficult to get back in to. The van ride to Cabo Pulmo was long and dusty, it took us about two hours of driving one way, some of that on a dirt road but it was worth the trip.
We stayed at the Finisterra Hotel and Playa Grande Hotel, they are both a five minute walk from Amigos del Mar and their boat. The Sol Mar is also in the same area. We'll be going back same time this year.
I dove for five days with Amigos Del Mar in Cabo San Lucas. One day we went to Cabo Pulmo. The boat that Amigos uses is a wide, stable catamaran with lots of room for stowage, a head, and a dive platform. The water was warm 80 degrees and relatively calm with some surge in areas. The visiblility was just ok, probably 50 feet at the best. We saw Mantas, Mobila, an eagle ray, bulls eye ray and Stingrays. I saw a whole bunch of rays flying overhead near Neptunes Finger, the DM called them Mantas. I saw quite a few fish, lots of different colours, lots of green eels, moray eels, a zebra eel, porcupine fish, Moorish idols, grunts, little barracudas, lobsters, parrotfish, goat fish, sea lions, an arrow crab and many others I cant name yet, also nudibranchs and several sea horses too. We also got into a huge school of jacks, and they swirled around us for some time. The two black tip reef sharks that used to hang out near Pelican Rock were fished out according to the DM. The same DM swears they saw a whale shark in the bay earlier in the summer.
The fish at Cabo Pulmo were huge, mostly the same types of fish as in Cabo San Lucas but much bigger, and loads of eels, porcupine fish and jacks. We did drift dives in Cabo Pulmo since it had a current running, we had to stay along a ledge to keep below it in some areas. The boat used in Cabo Pulmo is a large, high-sided panga, with a ladder over the side, kinda difficult to get back in to. The van ride to Cabo Pulmo was long and dusty, it took us about two hours of driving one way, some of that on a dirt road but it was worth the trip.
We stayed at the Finisterra Hotel and Playa Grande Hotel, they are both a five minute walk from Amigos del Mar and their boat. The Sol Mar is also in the same area. We'll be going back same time this year.
