24 February 2010

February is slow....

visibility: is staying quite good around 35 feet
water temperature: is also staying the same around 72º
currents: hardly any, and if it's a nice little push...
surface conditions: are good too, since this winter is almost windless.

In other years the visibility would be less than 30 feet, the temperature under 65º and the wind would blow twice as much and a lot stronger. This winter is very mild, both above and under water. The whales seem to be enjoying it, we see them on a daily base, like clockwork; calves being tought by mom how to swim, breath and breatch...
Because of the temperature, or the lack of algea, or the light, or a combination of the above, we don't see the mobulas this year. Some cownose rays were seen, when we thought it was still summer (January), but since, just some rounded rays and cortez rays, a few bullseye rays and that's it. Hardly any stingrays, diamond rays, bat rays or eagle rays... We miss them dearly; they made of Los Morros a 'ray-city', now the sand is covered with goatfish and garden eels, every now and than a goliath grouper swimming by... Still, no rays in ray-city, but surtainly not a ghost town...

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