Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Whale Shark report - Saturday 2 May 2009

What an incredible season we are having.  Today again we found our whale shark very early in the day and the water was clear & blue.  We shared our whale shark with another boat for about 15 minutes before spending another 75 minutes with it all by ourselves.

The whale shark was beautiful with its markings glimmering in the rays of sunlight streaming through the crystal clear water.  It was feeding along a rich line and would descend a few meters, then tilt up and slowly rise to the surface, swim along with the snorkellers for a while, then gently glide down and back up.  We had awesome swims!

We stayed inside the reef for our dive today so went to Ranger Bommies. As always there were stacks of fish circling the bommies and lots of rays hanging out in the sand. The tomato anemonefish were very active - darting way away from their anemones and then snuggling right down in to the middle. Hiding in the tentacles were some very teeny babies. School of very large trevally buzzed the divers. Very active dive site.
WATER TEMP: 28C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 7m

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