Why knot?: Underwater Bliss in the Galapagos!

After our great time in San Cristobal – we set sail for Santa Cruz where diving was high on the priority list. Given the lack of coral but the mixing of ocean currents and temperatures we were told that diving in Galapagos was second to none for big fish. Heading out at the crack of dawn we motored into the wind for 45 minutes to arrive at Gordon Rocks.

A legendary sight famous for hammerhead sightings. Mike and I have seen our fair share of shark activity but hammerheads have always eluded us so we were pretty stoked to see what was on offer. Unfortunately it wasn't in the cards for us that day but we did see plenty of other biggies!

White tip reef sharks having a snooze

The currents coming in and out between the rocks made for some of the most challenging diving we have done, at times we were literally holding onto rocks for fear of being swept away with the current.

The visibility was pretty poor but there was lots of activity underwater – including sealions, white tip reef sharks and more turltes than we could count.

Spotted Eagle Ray

and finally for an amazing finale to our second dive…. A whale shark appeared out of the depths. It was a juvenile - maybe 4 meters in length, SO incredible! Watch the video here. Whale shark sightings are not that common in these waters, Academy Bay Diving said they’d be lucky to have one a year – I guess luck was on our side. Such an amazing experience to have 5 minutes with this ocean giant.

Not quite having her fill of underwater encounters - Megan signed up for another day of diving and snorkelling out at Florianna where the fish were abundant and sea lions were the main feature! They were very curious about us and came super close - almost too close...