This summer almost gone...

visibility: between 60 and 80 feet
water temperature: a nice 80F
currents: non what so ever...
surface conditions: flat as a pancake

The summer is almost gone. Already the end of October, just a few more weeks and we're celebrating Christmas... Gifts and presents time...
Good, for our camera's both drowned, both in the same week, so no more photo's. At least until Xmas when the Xmasman will get us some new toys and if he forgets? No, cannot be, a diving blog without photos is like a dive without water, he has to remember...
But what to do in the meanwhile, almost 2 months? We'll go diving, and a lot, to forget the pain of the loss...

So, that's it. Don't see you here, maybe see you under water...

Bye...

Busy, busy busy...

visibility: has been what it is expected to be; over 20 meters / 60 feet.
water temperature: was nice and comfortable around 82º F.
currents: almost didn't exist, at the most a push, unfortunately in the wrong direction...
surface conditions: except for a day or two, three, four at the most, perfect flat calm.

only macro worked in Mulegé

This month time is flying, and then we realized all of-a-sudden, that we completely forgot about the blog. We're working okay, busy, but not too extremely much to not have time. Sure, we've been diving every day and we're still working on the center. The construction works are not yet finished, but it more and more looks like a professional dive center. Already some plants in the garden and all. We've been struggling a bit, this summer, but the end of the suffering seems close!

it's good resting after a hard day's work

Meanwhile Henri has been to Mulegé, a village somewhere in the north of the middle of the south of the peninsula, for his Staff Instructor Course. Thanks Mick, it's been a good one, though ruff-n-tough...
Mulegé is a beautiful place, clamped into an arroyo, green and lush. The diving is not bad either, but I personally (sorry Mick) prefer the Cabo Pulmo Reef a lot better. I've put up some photos of the diving 'up north', so you can judge for yourself.
So how was the diving here in Pulmo these last weeks? Not bad at all; the conditions great; the air and water temperature both were relatively mild, where we expected them to be extreme, after this warm winter. The hurricanes stayed all on a safe distance, so no damage done on land and hardly any disturbance in the sea; only a very few days that we had to put the boats on higher land and couldn't go out.
What was strange though, is that also the North Americans stayed on a distance. The 'trend' last months was having a lot of Europeans visiting us and that continued this month. Mainly Italian, but also a good number from Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland and even a number of Dutch; good for practicing our languages again! Another change since the last years, is that we are becoming popular in the Mexican market! Reason enough to continue with our plans: get everything done in English and Spanish... Starting with our own web site and also the site of the shop itself. Now it's time to get this blog in both languages too.

beautiful coast lines between Mulegé

and the Loreto mountains

So you check a bit and start shopping around and get a scare of what it all involves...Isn't it horrible, first everybody tells you, you need a web site, than in two languages and it still doesn't work. Nobody finds the site, so you're looking for solutions and get 'advise' on getting traffic, 589 different ways of internet marketing, search engine optimization stuff, back links, keywords and phrases and all that jam. The big scare are the prices charged, so we're diving into the internet, the moment we get dry... Do it yourself or go broke, was our first lesson. Well it wont keep us out of the water, but maybe off of the street. We'll keep you informed and if anyone out there has some suggestions, knowledge or time and interest in helping us out, just drop a line and we'll be eternally grateful and in your (limited) dept....
 
But now, first, let's go diving while it is still so very unbelievable beautiful out there on the reef...

September: no hurricanes during hurricane month

• visibility: 15-20 meters / 45-60 feet
• water temperature: 25-28C / 75-82F
• currents: none
• surface conditions: wonderful! 

September has been a very good month for diving.

While everybody in Cabo Pulmo was getting ready to go to Mexico City (Cabo Pulmo had reached the finals in the national contest "Iniciativa México", and they had to be on television!), we were very busy diving, diving and diving some more.

And as usual, our divers became our friends: Curt and Kelly, from California, Walti from Argentina, Marta from Colombia, Fernando from Spain, and of course, our students: Memo, Alex, Ernesto and Cosijoopii from Monterrey, México. Also, Ernesto and Elodie, who are carrying out a very interesting project all around Mexico, finding out what the different dive locations have to offer, safety conditions and hyperbaric facilities available.
Mick (course director in Mulege) dived with us, chasing sharks, but, as always, if you're too eager they don't show themselves... sorry Mick!

Thank you all for all the fun we shared and congratulations to those who became certified divers. Of course, let´s not forget Memo, who became a Rescue Diver -and spent one whole week rescuing Ñoño over and over again!

September has been great, nice and warm weather; on land, without the enormous amounds of rain and very strong winds, but with bathtub warm and cristal clear waters, full of life...

Yeah, life's good.