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This trip to Ensenada Blanca included floating and fishing. Floating would be snorkeling in some of the clearest waters I have ever been in. The areas near the resort, the Villa del Palmar Loreto, have very clear calm waters because of the islands protecting the bays from the Sea of Cortez. I would advise a light body suit if you snorkel near the resort as the sea lice is crazy bad.
Across the bay , snorkeling around Danzante Island is really good, no sea lice and abundant sea life. The first thing I swam into was a large school of sardines. This went on for 40 yards and took up the entire water column. Then this broke into deeper areas with larger fish, some very large, waiting for a stray sardine. Occasionally, a large fish would excite the ball of sardines and the sardines would circle me. Very cool. Farther along were the normal varieties of colorful tropical fish doing their thing. Very cool.
The next Danzante Island spot was on the sunny side of the island. Large rocks with schools of fish swimming around. Not as impressive as the first spot but very cool.
Snorkeling in the area near the resort was very good on the outer side of the cliffs. The resort has a trail to this area so it is fairly easy to access. We snorkeled against the slight current maybe 400 yards to a point in the cliffs. On the way to this point we went over large crevices , boulders and hard coral formations. Each area had a dominate species with parrot fish and trigger fish being the largest species dominating all areas. Many star fish and giant clams.
Once we hit the point we drifted back in about 40 ft where the white sand met the structure. We saw 4 decent sized spotted reys, schools of fish and a turtle. One thing I noticed was a clicking sound while going through the large yellow tropical fish. Immediately after going through these fish I felt the stings of sea lice. I think the yellow fish were eating the sea lice and that might of been the clicking noise. While it doesn't hurt I do have welts where my skin was unprotected. I had a dive shirt on but wore board shorts, so from the knee down was mostly involved. I noticed that the 60sp lotion kept my face and neck safe.
The fishing was very good. We bottom fished for some red snapper and after we had enough for some meals we went after dorado. We did get into the dorado, yum. Our group is about 12 people so we had the resort cook a meal at their nice restaurant. The meal was very good but not seasoned the way I would have. The rest of this week we have been making fish tacos in our room, yum.
Anyway, so far, so good.
Bill
Across the bay , snorkeling around Danzante Island is really good, no sea lice and abundant sea life. The first thing I swam into was a large school of sardines. This went on for 40 yards and took up the entire water column. Then this broke into deeper areas with larger fish, some very large, waiting for a stray sardine. Occasionally, a large fish would excite the ball of sardines and the sardines would circle me. Very cool. Farther along were the normal varieties of colorful tropical fish doing their thing. Very cool.
The next Danzante Island spot was on the sunny side of the island. Large rocks with schools of fish swimming around. Not as impressive as the first spot but very cool.
Snorkeling in the area near the resort was very good on the outer side of the cliffs. The resort has a trail to this area so it is fairly easy to access. We snorkeled against the slight current maybe 400 yards to a point in the cliffs. On the way to this point we went over large crevices , boulders and hard coral formations. Each area had a dominate species with parrot fish and trigger fish being the largest species dominating all areas. Many star fish and giant clams.
Once we hit the point we drifted back in about 40 ft where the white sand met the structure. We saw 4 decent sized spotted reys, schools of fish and a turtle. One thing I noticed was a clicking sound while going through the large yellow tropical fish. Immediately after going through these fish I felt the stings of sea lice. I think the yellow fish were eating the sea lice and that might of been the clicking noise. While it doesn't hurt I do have welts where my skin was unprotected. I had a dive shirt on but wore board shorts, so from the knee down was mostly involved. I noticed that the 60sp lotion kept my face and neck safe.
The fishing was very good. We bottom fished for some red snapper and after we had enough for some meals we went after dorado. We did get into the dorado, yum. Our group is about 12 people so we had the resort cook a meal at their nice restaurant. The meal was very good but not seasoned the way I would have. The rest of this week we have been making fish tacos in our room, yum.
Anyway, so far, so good.
Bill
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