The day I guided the dive!!!! Our dive guide was struck down by the same bug most of us have suffered from and I was asked to lead the Sharks!
Tick GALAPAGOS GUIDE in the dive C.V.
Bloody hell that was different, from 30-degree water to 16 degrees, even with an under suit on, the water gave me cold shock and I was ready to get out after 35 minutes. The dive was a wall dive and offered the opportunity to see Red lipped bat fish, Galapagos bull head sharks and sea horses. All I saw were two red lipped bat fish a few harlequin wrasses and loads of pencil anemones. After 35 minutes I was happy to end the dive and head back to the boat.
After a ninety minute surface interval during which we watched iguanas swimming around the bay, it was off for another dive to remember. We jumped in near to the shore and spent 50 minutes at 5 metres in the company of marine iguanas and Galapagos Bull Sea Lions. The iguanas were set on having their daily feed after basking for the morning on the beach and the sea lions were set on playing and swimming around with us divers. The young sea lions also spent time annoying the iguanas. As we got back in the rib we were joined by a Galapagos Penguin and a cormorant. Jim who was with us and has over 5000 dives (though he is American) rated the dive in his top five, I have to agree that this was my best cold water dive to date.
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