We couldn't resist trying our luck at Central Station for the dive today and we were treated to all the usual suspects plus a couple of very big guys. An enormous bull ray - what are these guys eating this season?! - was laying quietly in the sand. As we watched him, he'd puff a bit more sand over himself or roll his wings a little bit. He was still there when we came back to check over 20 minutes later so clearly he was enjoying his naptime! Another cool sighting was a very large estuary cod. When we first saw him, he was just hanging around, doing a little cicular circuit over the reef. On the way back to the achor line we saw him again and he had his mouth wide open with cleaner wrasse darting up from the reef to have a scrub.
WATER TEMP: 25C
VISIBILITY: 8m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: mild
DEPTH: 17m
We had two whale sharks of opposite size today - one enormous 8m+ (some of the crew reckon he was over 9m!) and one small 3.5m whale shark. The smaller one was out wide in pretty deep water and as he'd rise up on the swell he'd almost disappear from view until the swell passed! The big guy was up closer to the reef in shallow water and he stayed with us for a good long time.
Two of our clients - Carlo & Marilena - submitted some of their photos to Ecocean's Whale Shark Photo ID Library and have already been notified that our large whale shark from the tour is a new sighting to these waters! He's now Whale Shark #A-537 and you can see photos from their encounter by clicking. How cool is that?
We also swam with manta rays today again, including one stunning almost all black manta ray. Awesomeness!
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