One of my greatest dive trips has been a recent trip to Anacappa Island. It was a #-night and 4-day boat trip that included six night dives and 12 day dives aboard the Encore boat, one of my favorite boats because of the amount of space available in the boat. I had a great time because for the trip I bought an underwater camera and was able to take pictures and show my friends what I saw instead of simply telling them.
On one dive there on the island we were surrounded by a group of sea lions. I enjoyed simply lying on the bottom of the ocean watching the sea lions move. I enjoyed watching them interact with one another. As I got a little closer to the sea lions to take their pictures they began to get curious of what I looked like and playfully swam right up to my face as if to say, “what are you up to?”
On another dive, my buddy and I were fortunate enough to see an electric sting ray. At the time, we didn’t know what kind of a sting ray we were dealing with; we also didn’t know what kind of damage a sting ray like this could do. Not knowing it was an electric ray, we began being playful with it and petting it. Luckily for the sake of our own lives, the electric ray held back on his electrical powers or else my dive buddy and I could have been seriously hurt. Seeing these beautiful animals in the open water was a trip of a lifetime for me.
http://www.islandpackers.com/anacapa.html
http://www.west.net/~scifmail/anahist.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5PK6Cvseg
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/default.asp?hOri=1&inhab=510
http://www.oceanlight.com/html/rays.html?data=yes
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