Thursday, May 21, 2009

Whale Shark report - Tuesday 19 May 2009

Another fantastic day out on our Whale Shark Adventure.  We started at Central Station first up and it was going off!  There were millions of fish everywhere - on the cleaning stations, in big schools, cruising over the reef.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 6-8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m

The whale sharks yesterday were amazing. Today was ten times as good! We swam with five different whale sharks between 4-7m and four of them did unusual things.

Everybody poops and whale sharks are no exception. As we were swimming along, one of our whale sharks pooped for what seemed like ages, trailing a big cloud behind him. Not often we see that!

Another of our whale sharks swam straight up from the bottom and then just hung vertically in the water as we lazed on the surface and waited for him to move again. It looked exactly like he was balanced on the edge of his tail. Very cool.

Two other whale sharks decided our boat was worth closer investigation and swam right up to it. We had to wait for one of them to get out of the way before we could even get back on the boat! One of the two loved the bottom of the boat and would nuzzle right up to the hull.

Amazing amazing amazing day!

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