Oh, Mexico: Part II
Posted By Duncan Chappell on 2 May 2004
Wednesday
I seemed to have got over my travel tiredness after a couple of good nights' sleep and was awake early. Not even a ripple on the sea, it was like glass.
The silence was finally broken by a pelican hitting the water in a dive. It seemed that the sea had suddenly woken up. Once something decides it's time for breakfast, it all kicks off and nobody wants to miss out.
We ourselves decided that a spot of fishing for the day would not go amiss. It proved to be a good way to ease myself back into diving gently, at a nice leisurely depth, something I'd not really had the opportunity to do a lot in the past few months. We motored up the coast to a headland called Punta el Mechudo.
Aharon instructed me on the rules we were going to dive by, and how far away from the boat we would be fishing, just in case we had any unwanted visitors lurking around trying to muscle in on our catch.
I had chance to have a good look around and see just some of the many fish lurking among the rocks. Large schools of Parrot fish grazed in formation across the bottom, and other fish that showed themselves included Pargo, Cabria (particularly good eating) and various Snapper, Tangs, Morey, Trigger fish, small blue Chromis and Sergeant Majors (mostly pointed out by my companions, although I'd recognised a few).
Once we had taken what we needed for the table we headed for home.
On the way back to camp we were fortunate enough to come across a large pod of striped dolphins travelling in the same direction. It was broken up into smaller groups, spread over a large area, and you could hear them chattering away to each other, a sound I was familiar with but had never heard first hand. Although a brief experience, ll one of many that made my stay memorable.
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