Some photos from our first few days of diving in Loreto, Baja, Mexico. We've been coming here every couple of years for about 12 years. We like the small, quiet town. And we love diving with Rafael and the crew at Dolphin Dive. We're staying at Villas Santo Nino where we were greeted by this wonderful new mural:
Heading out on the Dolphin Dive boat with Rafael:
I don't do enough underwater photography to get any good at it, but occasionally I get lucky and get a decent shot.
Baja's Sea of Cortez may not have the coral reefs of other dive sites, but it has a lot of other great sea life. This is not a very good photograph but it shows the multitude of fish. Jacques Cousteau called this area "the world's aquarium".
This next one is one of my favorites from the last few days. It's a nudibranch (sea slug), I think Chromodoris marislae.
I like these little spotted boxfish. They can be shy so it's tricky to get a good shot.
I love being able to view the details in the photographs, like this starfish.
Or this Panamic fan worm that looks like feathers:
Green moray eels are quite common. This one actually came closer when I was taking its picture, as if it was curious. Their eyes look like the buttons on stuffed toys.
The scorpionfish are well camouflaged (they're ambush predators). They look grumpy.
It's always fun to visit the sea lions. The first day they ignored us under water, but the second visit they came down and interacted with us more. They don't breed here so they are not aggressive.
Although there aren't as many dolphins around as there used to be, we were lucky enough to see a good sized group of them on our second day of diving.
Of course, there's plenty of life above the water as well, like these blue-footed boobies (famous from Galapagos)
This juvenile yellow-crowned night heron was under the dock.
Green and flowers in the desert, a result of recent rain.
And, of course, reflections :-)
See all 67 photos (sorry, too many!)
Heading out on the Dolphin Dive boat with Rafael:
I don't do enough underwater photography to get any good at it, but occasionally I get lucky and get a decent shot.
Baja's Sea of Cortez may not have the coral reefs of other dive sites, but it has a lot of other great sea life. This is not a very good photograph but it shows the multitude of fish. Jacques Cousteau called this area "the world's aquarium".
This next one is one of my favorites from the last few days. It's a nudibranch (sea slug), I think Chromodoris marislae.
I like these little spotted boxfish. They can be shy so it's tricky to get a good shot.
I love being able to view the details in the photographs, like this starfish.
Or this Panamic fan worm that looks like feathers:
Green moray eels are quite common. This one actually came closer when I was taking its picture, as if it was curious. Their eyes look like the buttons on stuffed toys.
The scorpionfish are well camouflaged (they're ambush predators). They look grumpy.
It's always fun to visit the sea lions. The first day they ignored us under water, but the second visit they came down and interacted with us more. They don't breed here so they are not aggressive.
Although there aren't as many dolphins around as there used to be, we were lucky enough to see a good sized group of them on our second day of diving.
Of course, there's plenty of life above the water as well, like these blue-footed boobies (famous from Galapagos)
This juvenile yellow-crowned night heron was under the dock.
Green and flowers in the desert, a result of recent rain.
And, of course, reflections :-)
See all 67 photos (sorry, too many!)
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