Snorkelling at Tenacatita

February 10, 2025 
For the whole month of January the water quality here was very poor.  We had poor visibility all of the time, and at times it was only a couple of feet.  What seemed to be a type of red tide would roll in and out.  In the morning we might have only two feet of visibility, but by evening we could see five feet.  It changed frequently and quickly, but it was never good.   
Since around the beginning of February things have improved immensely.  We still can’t see the bottom in 25 feet of water where we are anchored, but we can look into the water and see all of the fish that swim around our boat.  We have now been snorkelling a few times and hopefully the water clarity will continue to improve and we will do more. 
One day we went out to a rock that sits alone as a pinnacle in otherwise deep water.  Jason did some snorkelling around it, not close enough to actually see the rock, but about 100 feet off where the predator fish are.  He saw lots of large fish and had one swim straight up out of the gloom towards him.  It was a large, silver head swimming straight at him, and then it turned sideways about five feet away.  It was at that time that he was able to identify it as a Carvel Jack. 
Falcon and I floated around and rowed after him in the tender watching the beautiful sunset and the surface fish action. 
Falcon had a great time trying to row our tender around and eventually Jason waved us over and we went and picked him up.   
The whole time that Jason was snorkelling he was hearing the humpback whales singing.  After he got out he was telling us about hearing them, and then just as though they were saying “Hi, yes, it was us over here”, we saw two humpback whales breach at the same time further out the bay.  It was perfect timing with Jason telling us about hearing them and all of us happened to be looking that way and got to see it. 


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  1. ColleenMarch 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM

    Wow! It doesn't get better than that! To see and hear the whales is truly remarkable.

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