Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Monday 17 May 2010

A little choppy as we started our Whale Shark Adventure, but the Floats had plenty of marine animals to make us forget about the short bumpy ride out. Sweetlips and big snapper hung out at the top of the peaks, unicornfish and surgeons tucked under overhangs and parrotfish made a racket as they gnawed on coral. A brave mantis shrimp scuttled from one hole to the next, his bright green back standing out like neon against the reef.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: strong
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 15m

The whale sharks were loving the rolling seas today. We swam with four different whale sharks and multiple long, slow drops with most of them. One of the whale sharks kept trying to get a better look at us so kept circling around, rounding us up. They were all in pretty blue water. The sharks today were about the same size as the majority of whale sharks we've been seeing here on the Ningaloo Reef: 3m-7m. It's amazing how much bigger a 7m whale shark is compared to a 5m whale shark!

We love whale sharks!!