We went on three dives with Ricardo Arce the owner of Ricardo’s Diving Tours.

email: ricardoarcen@hotmail.com

Telephone: 011 52 (200)124-9262

He is a great dive master and I recommend you contact him for your trip to Bahia.

We saw a million (or more) fish

This was not a coral reef but the bay was teeming with life.

Including lots of what we think of as reef fish.

Visibility was about 40 ft

This is a creature that seems to be somewhere between a starfish and a crinoid.  We saw it clinging to the little bits of coral that grow in the bay.

The water was about 80 F most of the time but there were serious thermo-clines where the temperature dropped into the low 70’s.  These are the first underwater photos I have ever taken.  I used an Olympus camera and housing I borrowed from Mark Z.  I wanted it to document that we actually did swim with the whale sharks.  And it worked (see the whale shark blog post)

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