Hola Amigos!

March was beautiful.  The air temperature is averaging 90 F and water temperatures have been anywhere from 71-78 degrees with cooler thermoclines.  Visibility averaged 15-30 ft.

I finally got to dive the wreck at Los Meros!  I followed one of our instructor’s directions on how to get there.  When you get to the end of the rock formation where all the puffers hang out at 40ft you head straight out till you get to 60ft then hang a sharp left.  Well I thought we were heading out to no where land and all of a sudden we were there.  We got there just as this big grouper was leaving.  Very Cool!  I went there again the other day with Tomas a good friend of ours from NY and his friend Karen, the grouper were not there this time but at the main rock formations we saw many creatures including juvenile high hats and a small pink clam that stuck its foot out to flip itself around to get to another location.  We had a lot of fun hovering and watching the action.  This has to be one of my favorite dive sites; it is so full of life and fun to explore.

We are still seeing the California Butterfly ray at Virador and Argentina Point; this is a very cool looking ray.  There have been bulls eye rays everywhere (electric and regular).  Some of them are lumpy looking, I believe they are pregnant.  We saw a couple of babies that were only 3 inches in diameter, very cute.  We also saw a baby octopus poking its little head out to investigate us.  Did you know an octopus can squeeze through a hole as small as its eye? Tracy and Kimberly with two of our open water students found a burgandy colored frog fish at Tortuga on April fools day plus two yellow seahorses (one being pregnant).

We have to bid a happy farewell to Eddy Davy.  Eddy has worked with us since September 2007.  He is good instructor and a lot of fun to work with.  We wish him much happiness in his upcoming adventures.  Kimberly Shastid and Mike Rosati finished the divemaster program at the end of March, congrats to them!  Several of the staff had birthdays in March including Eddy, Tracy and myself.  April has some birthdays coming up for Kelley and Kike, Happy birthday to them.

As always the best part of our job is diving with the many friends we meet above and below the sea.  We look forward to diving with you. 

Hasta Pronto!