So good I wrote it twice, and then once more for added emphasis. What can I say, the diving was amazing, the weather fantastic, the company fun and entertaining, the food plentiful and nourishing, the land tours spectacular and I spent a week on the ocean. Great! The hammerheads were plentiful, the Galapagos sharks around, the whale shark a late comer to the party but a very welcome guest, the sea lions were playful, the shoals of fish were numerous, the little critters were supported by the sea horse, the frog fish and the nudibranchs, eagle rays were in squadrons, turtles stopped being pointed out as everyone had seen so many, the frigate birds and blue footed boobies had eggs and young, the land iguanas were yellow, the marine iguanas spat the salt water out of their nostrils, and the giant land toirtoises just kind of stood there and did nothing. The best thing for me was watching a sea lion play and hunt a shoal of 1000+ salema (a stripped fish about 8inches long) that was a moving bait ball, flowing backwards and forwards and opening and parting as the sea lion swam in, around, above and through the shoal until one salema finally took a wrong turn away from the shoal and the sea lion went for the kill and was very happy with her meal. I also swam in, through and around the shoal and once you are inside the light is dimmed and there are just stripes swimming all around your mask - amazing. I`m sure I have missed something that I saw but you get the general gist - it was a great trip, truly spectacular.
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