OK, I know we've been gushing about our Whale Shark Adventures a lot this season what with our beautiful blue water most days, multiple whale sharks to ourselves, long swims and fabulous encounters but we just can't seem to stop! And it seems like every other day we're getting something really special happen that causes us to gush more - Monday was one of the best yet.
We started with a nice dive on Central Station where we watched all of the usual suspects including dolphins, bull rays, blue spotted stingrays, eels, scorpionfish, threadfin pearl perch. There were also lots of big sailfish catfish foraging in the sand all along the bottom edge of the reef.
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 8-10m
CURRENT: slight
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 16m
Then it was off to the whale sharks! We swam with three different whale sharks throughout the day. We had another very large 8m whale shark hanging out with us and the other two were just a bit smaller. They were all very cooperative and we had excellent multiple long swims.
Although we had awesome whale sharks, the favourite experience of the whole day was snorkelling with a group of four manta rays chasing each other. doing fly-bys next to us as we watched from the surface and barrel-rolling right underneath us. Not impressive enough? How about the mom and bub humpback whales that swam right under us as we were with the mantas??? WOW - a definitely unique experience that none of us expected!
Later in the day we also got to hang out with some humpbacks on the surface and then another fabulous unexpected encounter - a pod of 200+ spinner dolphins! They played in the bow, jumped the wake and generally seemed to have a great time playing around the boat.
Fantastic, amazing, stupendous day!
Here's a little low-res video of our mantas & humpbacks just to rub it in!
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