Second Day of diving. Today is Gordon Rocks, a bit farther away than the diving site yesterday. I was the only passenger for Nautidiving, so they sent me to a different company which in turn sent me to a third one (I didn’t have to do anything, it was just a change of meeting place). This company wasn’t as good as Nautidiving, offering a very simple lunch. However, their dive masters (we had two) were very good. Given the distance to get there (1 hour on a speed boat each way), we only did 2 dives plus the buoyancy check. The ride was also very bumpy with one person getting very seasick. My companions were one person from the US (Laura) and three Israelis. As I did my buoyancy check the previous day, I just did snorkeling at the check site. No jelly fish this time.
Here are the stats for the dive:
| Dive | Max Depth | Avg Depth | Bottom Time |
| 1 | 94ft | 61ft | 38mins |
| 2 | 70ft | 42ft | 42mins |
Gordon Rocks was a more advanced site with deeper dives and very strong currents. The diving place is basically an eroded crater with the bottom of the crater, surrounded by two broken semi-circular walls. The inside of the crater goes down to 95ft while the outside wall goes to a depth of more than 450ft.
The highlights of the dives were the encounter with a huge sunfish and a school of hammerhead sharks. There were also some coral (unusual in Galapagos) on the inside walls plus turtles and lots of fish inside the crater.
 | Beautiful coral |
 | Sunfish |
 | Laura |
 | Green Turtle |
 | Hammerhead Shark |
 | School of fish and diver |
 | Streamer Hogfish |
 | Turtle and Laura |
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| Two different kind of star fish |
After the dive, I decided to have an extra day of diving the following day. Originally I was scheduled for a tour of the highlands as the package assumes that you fly after the diving program, but given that I wasn’t doing that, diving was a possibility. After scoring a place on a boat to Floreana, I went for dinner with the Israelis and Laura.
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