Diving Kicker Rock

This was our first salt water dive since Bonaire, which we did just around this time last year. I say our first salt water dive because I actually went diving last summer in Muskoka. It was a deep and cold fresh water dive down to a wreck that was in remarkably good condition. This time, we were hoping to see sharks; white tip, Galapagos, hammerheads and black tip reef sharks.

Kicker Rock or "León Dormido" (sleeping lion) as it is called in Spanish is the remains of a lava cone creating a fabulous wall dive. The current can be quite strong in places sending you quickly backwards or forwards and sometimes sending you down or up a few meters at a time along with the hundreds of small reef fish feeding on the wall corals.

Though not as colorful as some sites we have been to in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, we did see a large variety of reef fish, octopus, barracuda and many, many sharks. They were fairly small and we didn't see the hammerheads, but hey, a shark is a shark and I wasn't altogether calm while they were swimming around me. It was a really cool experience and a little scary but a lot of fun. Swimming with hammerhead sharks will have to wait for another time.