La Paz you might say, gave us a change of luck, with most things Indian Summer related going right. After a few days in the Marina Palmeira stocking up and cleaning the boat, Johnny and Emsy decided to take a chance and go diving with a local company to try and see the hammerhead sharks at El Bajo (a seamount 30 miles north of La Paz that rises from over 3000ft deep to just 50 ft). Johnny had previously tried to dive here in 2006 but was thwarted by hurricane Juan (or John in English, would you believe it!). This time the weather was fine and we were lucky enough to see about 30 hammerheads in the 2 dives we did, including a small school of 10 together. The dives were great in that every 2 or 3 minutes 2 or 3 hammerheads would pop into view.
Some were deep, some came close and they were much bigger than we expected despite the fact we've seen the odd one before. A thoroughly successful day was topped off by a dive at the sea lion colony at Los Islotes. Something that the Mexican divemaster described as diving with “leetle pawpies” and was so good we came back and did it 3 times on Indian Summer!
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