Saturday 20th May 2017
Beagle Rock/ Daphne Minor
Diving with Scuba Iguana
Repeat of yesterday with briefing and transfer to Baltra. Waves
slightly less but still choppy.
First dive Beagle Rock – saw white-tipped reef shark, Galapagos
shark mid-water – again indicated to hang on to rock, Scorpion fish. Visibility slightly less – about 6metres.
Second dive Daphne Minor – this time I took Roberto with us in my
stab jacket. Quike our dive master pointed out a cave with white-tipped reed
shark lying on floor outside. He took my go-pro and went into the cave where
there were about another 5x shark sheltering. In doing so, he disturbed them
and they came charging out only feet from us, then kept cruising up and down
the reef past us. Saw some very small blue nudibranch on the coral. Went
through a thermocline and temperature dropped from 25 deg down to 22 deg, so
started to feel cold even with the full wetsuit.
Lunch on the way back was ceviche, rice and plantain chips. Odd
but nice.
On our return, bought Tshirts, and a better video of yesterday’s
dive (note: need a flash or torch to get decent underwater shots, go-pro good
for video only, or snorkelling).
Started to rain for the first time in the Galapagos, and back late
from scuba, so we just relaxed in our room. Went out for a half pizza each and
a beer, quite late. Most of the places were closing (unlike Argentina when it
would just be warming up to start eating!).
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