For my part it was another early start, on a hot and cloudy day. We left from the usual moorings at Itibaca ferry, and headed up to North Seymour Island, (north of Baltra).
We dived La Punta - on the east side of the island with a rocky, sandy bottom gradually sloping to deeper waters. The dive begins in a sheltered area and then as we moved out and down, we hit the current. I spent just over an hour bottom time, no deeper than 19 metres deep, in water that at the surface was 24 Centigrade. Saw White-tip reef sharks, green sea turtles, a manta ray, and reef fish.
The second dive, El Canal, just before lunch saw us drop to less than 18 metres - this was memorable because of the garden eels, Heteroconger cobra, is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the western Central Pacific from Honiara, (as well as the Red Sea apparently). They occur in colonies, on sloping sand bottoms. They are known to be very frightened of humans: when one is spotted, the eels will dart back into the holes they live in.
Back at the hotel Margaret and I had an early dinner .. than bed.
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