Sunday, April 26, 2009

Whale Shark report - Friday 24 April 2009

Yesterday's conditions were shocking (and dangerous) so we canned the trip and decided to wait until things calmed down a little before venturing out.  Overnight everything changed dramatically and we were greeted with a beautiful morning and lovely conditions for our Whale Shark Adventure.

The whale sharks were happy to see us and we swam with three different sharks.  It's amazing how much difference a single day can make here! One of the bigger whale sharks we swam with today had his mouth open wide, vacuuming down as much plankton & bits as he could! All you could see at first was this huge mouth coming at you. Very cool stuff. All of the whale sharks were nice and slow as they cruised right under the surface and we spent a long time snorkelling with these gentle giants .  It was a fabulous day!

Coral Gardens has been so good lately, that we popped back there for our reef dive. Again there were multiple stingrays, some good sized cods and lots of brightly coloured reef fish decorating the coral bommies. A group of about 20 stripey pufferfish hung out over the sand - it's cool to watch them all turn as one as the divers come closer. Lovely dive with tons to see!
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 8m

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