A beautiful afternoon to head out looking for manta rays and humpback whales. We started by visiting Central Station and had one manta right on the surface for our first snorkel. He headed off towards one of the cleaning stations and as we snorkeled over three more joined us. One of the mantas was enormous - about 4m wingspan! We snorkeled with them for ages as they got cleaned, came over to us to check us out, swooped around us and generally showed off.
After a nice long snorkel, we headed out to watch the humpbacks. They were very active today with lots of tail and pec fin slapping, spyhopping. We spent most of our time with a group of three humpbacks who were carrying on but not swimming very fast or far. One of them broke off from the group to come to the boat. It kind of rolled on its side, gave us a good looking over and then went back to the other two whales where they resumed slapping the water and each other. A few times one of them would roll completely over onto its back and rise to the surface so its belly was breaking out of the water. The water was so clear you could watch the whole process over and over again. It was wonderful.
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