Dive #220 - Rich Torkington's Dive Log

Three of the six adjacent eels at this site.
Videograph by Rich Torkington in Mexico 2005

Dive Journal: We start motoring south from Isla Cerralvo, but unfortunately a sparkplug gives out, which greatly reduces our speed. It is a very long boat ride until Mark finally shows up in the other boat with new plugs, saving the day.

At Punta Pescadera, we descend along a nice N-S grouping of rocks with a mild current flowing. We immediately see zillions of fry here. We also immediately notice an abundance of big green morays here.

We find a spectacular jewel moray, and a flat of garden eels. We then see more big green morays - they seem to be free swimming everywhere! There are also several large tarpon-shaped mullets and some between-phase guineafowl puffers that look kinda psychedelic.

We swim upon a real hot spot later in the dive. It is a small rock cove with no less than 6 big green morays clustered together emerging from the rocks, along with 10 to 12 leopard groupers in the same spot. Man, we just stopped and stared.

Linda finally got cold at the end of this dive, but I’m sure glad she came with me on this one.