by Bobbie Jo | Apr 27, 2020 | Catalina Islands
Arco Iris (Rainbow) is one of my favorite dive sites in the Catalina Islands area on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. As you come over the top of the rock and see the beautiful sand channel, then part of the rock separates and you see that it is a school of grunts and...
by Bobbie Jo | Sep 25, 2019 | Catalina Islands
What scuba diver does not love playing in a school of fish? It is very common to play in huge schools of fish on the North coast of Costa Rica. This day we were diving at La Pared, one of the main dive sites at Catalina Island. It is a euphoric feeling as you become...
by Bobbie Jo | Sep 23, 2019 | Catalina Islands
The more you visit an area…the more you are able to observe and discover. We found these little bulls eye rays doing the mating dance while scuba diving at Bajo Tiburones in the Catalinas area. It was really cool…However in the end…I don’t...
by Bobbie Jo | Jul 30, 2019 | Catalina Islands, Turtles
The scuba diving has been spectacular this July in the Gulf of Papagayo. We saw several good sized turtles this day…hawks bill, olive ridley and the pacific black turtles. We also have been seeing lots of white-tip reef sharks and eagle rays…plus the many...
by Bobbie Jo | Jul 4, 2019 | Catalina Islands, Sharks
It was pretty cool watching these sharks hanging out on a sand bed under this big school of yellow tail grunts. It was like a big cloud of yellow fog…Soooo COOOL! This dive was at Arco Iris, one of our advanced dive sites in the Catalina Islands diving area....
by Bobbie Jo | Jul 3, 2019 | Catalina Islands, Rays, Sharks
Surprises in scuba diving never end….Awesomeness when you find a couple of nice white-tip reef sharks resting in the sand. Then as you get closer… you look up and a giant pacific manta ray swoops over your head playing in the bubbles. Happy Happy were we!...