Froglok Shaman
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Hello everyone. I'm a newly certified diver. Myself and my nephew Daniel completed our PADI Open Water course week before last. Daniel is staying with me while he attends school starting this fall, and lucky for him I was starting to do a lot of the things I'd always wanted to do, like traveling, and sailing and scuba diving. So he got to come along on my trip to warmer waters to take the open water course and have a vacation too.
I have a timeshare in Dan's new favorite vacation spot, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, so we stayed at the condo which is right on Medano beach and right next to Andromeda Diver's palapa. After a leisurely breakfast it was very convenient to toddle on down to the beach to class each morning, get in the boat and motor 2 minutes across the bay to the wall at Land's End. Andromeda is the only dive shop to operate on the beach at Cabo, the others motor out to the dive sites at the wall from the marina, which is a longer trip than from the beach. We did our confined water dives in a sheltered area next to Pelican's Rock, and after each dive lesson our instructor Jorge took us on a mini-resort tour to a nearby site. We had three days in the water and 1 day of classroom theory and then the exam.
After we finished the course and passed the test, Jorge took us on a couple of extra dives on our last day, gratis. On the first we went to 110 feet at the bottom of a canyon parallel to the wall. Neither Dan nor myself felt any narcosis symptoms, but I was pretty happy anyway just from the fact that I was diving so deep, so maybe I couldn't tell.
There wasn't much life at that depth, just a few fans and other living things sticking to rocks.
The second dive was around the point at Land's End, from the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific side, so we swam in two seas on one tank.
There was a lot of sealife to see, sea lions swimming nearby and lots of stingrays in the sand which Jorge would sometimes gently nudge to make them show themselves. At the start of this dive a sea lion youngster came over and swam around us but then darted back to the group that was swimming near the arch. There were lots of shoals of fish which I can't begin to identify yet, but it was mesmerizing to watch. Jorge started to coax a moray out of a crevice in between two rocks but then noticed the eel had his mate in there, so he backed off. Usually, he says, morays are like dogs and you can scratch them under their chin to coax them out and they'll let you stroke their belly. I don't know about that but it was a colorful story. 
I have a timeshare in Dan's new favorite vacation spot, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, so we stayed at the condo which is right on Medano beach and right next to Andromeda Diver's palapa. After a leisurely breakfast it was very convenient to toddle on down to the beach to class each morning, get in the boat and motor 2 minutes across the bay to the wall at Land's End. Andromeda is the only dive shop to operate on the beach at Cabo, the others motor out to the dive sites at the wall from the marina, which is a longer trip than from the beach. We did our confined water dives in a sheltered area next to Pelican's Rock, and after each dive lesson our instructor Jorge took us on a mini-resort tour to a nearby site. We had three days in the water and 1 day of classroom theory and then the exam.
After we finished the course and passed the test, Jorge took us on a couple of extra dives on our last day, gratis. On the first we went to 110 feet at the bottom of a canyon parallel to the wall. Neither Dan nor myself felt any narcosis symptoms, but I was pretty happy anyway just from the fact that I was diving so deep, so maybe I couldn't tell.
There wasn't much life at that depth, just a few fans and other living things sticking to rocks.The second dive was around the point at Land's End, from the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific side, so we swam in two seas on one tank.
There was a lot of sealife to see, sea lions swimming nearby and lots of stingrays in the sand which Jorge would sometimes gently nudge to make them show themselves. At the start of this dive a sea lion youngster came over and swam around us but then darted back to the group that was swimming near the arch. There were lots of shoals of fish which I can't begin to identify yet, but it was mesmerizing to watch. Jorge started to coax a moray out of a crevice in between two rocks but then noticed the eel had his mate in there, so he backed off. Usually, he says, morays are like dogs and you can scratch them under their chin to coax them out and they'll let you stroke their belly. I don't know about that but it was a colorful story. 
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