@kumimonster thanks for all this terrific info. I had found it very hard to find any detailed, recent info on Pulmo diving.
Can you tell me, are there any Pulmo sites that stand out for smaller animals in your experience (frogfish, nudis, juvenile fish, etc)? I'm hoping to look more for smaller animals and endemics.
And how many dives can you do with Pilu's shop in a day - 3? Have you done any night dives there and were they any good?
You're welcome! I really enjoy it there. The dives are very enjoyable and staying there is so relaxing and peaceful.
Just remember to bring CASH!
El Bajo is great for smaller creatures. And El Cantil. But really, it's a matter of keeping your eyes open. The frog fish I did spy were small tiny white ones at pedregal and los morros. The photo blog link i posted earlier should have tags and info with the dive sites. The nudies were at Esperanza and morros. In March, earlier this year I saw a bunch of Mexican Dancers - Elysea Diomedea - all over the place. I thought I was in SE Asia or something! But it's not really as colorful as that but they're around. Once in a while I'll see juvenile wrass - mostly the rock fish wrasse (i think they're called dragon wrasse?).
Really, any dive site can have something cool. Even El vencedor (the wreck with the bulls). It's just that people are usually focused on the magnificent sharks swirling around them!
Pilu will only do 2 dives a day, but if you want to do more, just ask her and she has other DMs she works with. One, named Manuella loves the small things and is great at finding them especially if you tell her that's what you want to see.
Pilu loves the big fish and the sharks! haha.
I've only done one "night" dive there and really it was a late afternoon thing. The sun was down by the time we got in.
The difficulty with night dives are the lack of people and interest. And it's also a lot of work for the shops to organize because they do a beach entry where the little boats are on trailers and pushed in by trucks. For the exit, they need to get the boats back on these trailers and then brought out. It takes a bit of work and these guys usually have been up at the crack of dawn for the morning sessions.
It can't hurt to ask and I have, but I never got the chance. If you have enough people with interest and wallets then maybe that might make it happen for you!
