We started our Whale Shark Adventure with a snorkel and dive on Central Station today. The marine life was very active and abundant with turtles, rays, schools of fish, parrotfish, angelfish and anemone fish all going about their business. A huge estuary cod was being cleaned and all over the reef bright red & white striped cleaner shrimp were peeking out of their holes.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m
And then we found whale sharks! Lots of whale sharks! We swam with five different whale sharks ranging from a tiny 2.5m to a huge 8 meters. Our little whale shark was badly scarred, but seemed perfectly happy cruising along with the snorkellers.
On one of our drops with a 6m whale shark, a SECOND whale shark joined our group for a few moments. He came in, kind of circled within about 5m of us and the first whale shark, then cruised off alone. It was AWESOME!
And we saw the first humpback whales of the year, too.
Just a tremendously fabulous day!
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