Friday, March 13, 2015

Sea-Life

3/9/15 

A Dolphin showing off just 50 feet from our dingy!
We took the dingy and snorkeling gear around the point.  We could hear sea lions all the way from the next point 2 miles north.  When we got closer to the sea lion rookery there were a lot of sea lions on the rocks.  We were excited to see if we could swim with them but they got fairly agitated when we got close.  There were some very large bulls that were barking at us and got in and swam towards us.  We decided that these guys were not nearly as used to humans as the ones closer to La Paz which we had swam with several times.  It just looked a little sketchy so we just observed from the dingy for a while.  On the way back we got close to a couple of pods of dolphins.  They seem to ignore you totally right to a certain distance and then they just disappear.  One pod did get close and were jumping about 30 yards away.  Susan got lucky and snapped a great picture of one mid-jump.  Back at the point we had a good snorkel and saw a lot of fish.  Cooper lasts about 15 minutes before he’s so cold he has to get out.  We decided to stay and do one more snorkel tomorrow before heading to Bahia Ballandra.

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