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Islander Charters wishes all our friends and valued customers a wonderful and safe Holiday Season. We’ve just put our 2010 schedule online and are now taking reservations for all trips. For trips three days and longer, please call Christine at our office at 619-224-4388. For all other fishing trips, please call Fisherman’s Landing at 619-221-8500.
This is our last Guadalupe Island Great White Shark trip for 2009. While we’re sad to see it end we are looking forward to 2010. In the next few days our full schedule for 2010 will be available online. Please call our office to find out more about the trips. Diving with Great White Sharks at Guadalupe Island is truly a life changing event and we’d love to take you there.
We were forced out of the North Bay by wind again last night but retunred pre-dawn to find workable conditions. Guadalupe Island is best described in one word - dramatic. From the intense geologic extremities to the abundance of life in the water this island is truly remarkable. That same remarkability accounts for the dramatic shifts in conditions which we sometimes encounter here as well. Fortunately, by 9am we had absolutely flat calm weather as we watched the ocean completely lay down. The down side is that our white shark viewing was fairly slow. We had two different sharks around the cages for the latter part of the day but they spent the majority oftheir time belwo 20 feet. Fortunately memories and photos of Great White Sharks from yesterday have filled in the voids.
We departed Guadalupe Island at 5pm and plan on being in Ensenada by 2pm tomorrow.
We got back into the North Bay of Guadalupe Island just before sunrise and got the anchor down in mild winds. Fortunately, in the middle of the first dive we saw our first Great White Shark and we continued that momentum until nearly the last dive. We spotted four different Great White Sharks today including Shredder, an old favorite. The White Sharks made plenty of close passes allowing for excellent film and video opportunites.
We had consistent breeze throughout the day but we were able to keep the shark cages operating for every rotation. All in all, this was a good day of white shark viewing making up for yesterday’s slow action. We plan on starting here for our last day.
We were greeted by wind and lots of it upon our arrival at Guadalupe Island. We made a pass through the North Bay to assess conditions but decided to move on. With gusts up to 35 knots we erred on the side of caution and made our way south to an alternate dive site. While we’ve seen numerous Great White Sharks at our alternate site in the past, today proved to be a different story. All in all, a very slow day of white shark diving. We plan on spending the night out of the wind and making the move to the North Bay early in the mornning.
We departed the beautiful Marina Cruiseport in Ensenada today bound again for Guadalupe Island. Great White Shark diving has been excellent this year and we’re hoping for more of the same on our final voyage. Traditionally, November has been an excellent time of year to dive at Isla Guadalupe and we’re all excited about the next four days. Big female Great White Sharks tend to congregate this time of year and we’re hoping to see sharks approaching 20 feet.
At the moment we have excellent travellng weather and plan on being at Guadalupe Island around 9am.
Nice wave, bad location.
Because of the windy conditions we had yesterday afternoon, we camped out at the south end again last night. We had a little wind but it was not all that bad. We picked up the anchor at 4:30 am and headed back up north for our last day of White Shark Diving here at Guadalupe Island. The weather came down and it turned out to be a very nice day. The White Sharks were a little slow to wake up this morning and we had our first sighting at 10am. It was a small male about 11 feet long. The next White Shark came at about 2pm and was quite cooperative. She was around 13 feet and made several very close passes for the cameras. We wrapped things up at around 4pm and headed for Ensenada. Weather is nice and we are making very good speed putting us at the dock at 12 noon tomorrow.
Wind at Guadalupe Island
White Shark Film Cage
Dan on a rebreather with homemade housing
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