by Bobbie Jo | Jun 13, 2019 | Local Diving, Sharks
I love seeing how close we can get to the white-tip reef sharks. This shark was resting at one of the wrecks at our local dive site Tortuga. Sitting at 70ft during low tide…Just a few minutes boat ride from Playa del Coco. Beautiful animals. Such a rush of...
by Bobbie Jo | Jun 9, 2019 | Local Diving, Turtles
Happiness is Turtle Happiness…It is quite common to find turtles while scuba diving or snorkeling in the Gulf of Papagayo. This young hawks bill turtle was happily munching goodies from the rocks at Monkey Head dive site when we came along. He did not mind at...
by Bobbie Jo | Jun 8, 2019 | Local Diving
In Honor of World’s Ocean Day…. Here is a video of a flatworm that I found the other day at Virador, one of our beautiful local dive sites in the Gulf of Papagayo. I was excited as I have only seen a couple of these creatures in the twenty years that I...
by Bobbie Jo | May 27, 2019 | Local Diving
You never know what sort of critters you will see in the Gulf of Papagayo while scuba diving. We found this critter laying out in the open at one of our local dive sites…Punta Ballena. I believe it is a type of stargazer. I have only seen this fish less than...
by Bobbie Jo | May 10, 2019 | Local Diving, Turtles
Surprises, surprises. Scuba diving is full of surprises…This was the second turtle we saw at this dive site…Tortuga…One of our many awesome local dive sites in the Gulf of Papagayo. The first turtle was a small hawks bill…only about a foot...
by Bobbie Jo | May 6, 2019 | Local Diving
Since this morning we had the chance to see a yellow bellied sea snake on the beach in Playa del Coco…I though I would share this video of the spotted tiger snake eel. Eels are a type of elongated fish found in both marine and freshwater… Eels have gills...
