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We know we've said that we've had magical, perfect, breath-taking days out before, but today put more than just icing on the cake!
We started with a fabulous dive at Central Station with sharks, potato cod, big turtles, lots of fish and manta rays! We'd tell you more, but we need to get to the rest of the day:
WATER TEMP: 24C
VISIBILITY: 12-15m
CURRENT: none
SURGE: none
DEPTH: 17m
Breaching humpback whales, humpback whales coming within meters of us while we were snorkeling with the whale sharks, humpback whales spy-hopping to check us out.
Orcas feeding and showing off.
More manta rays!
THREE WHALE SHARKS around us at ONE TIME!! It was mind-blowing! The three were circling the boat and us while we were snorkeling - it was hard to keep track of which whale shark we were originally watching! They were devouring a big school of bait that was so thick in places we could barely see the whale shark through it. One of these guys was a whooping 9m and simply too big to describe!
There were also other types of sharks patrolling below the baitball and manta rays were cruising around and around us and the whale sharks, too.
Needless to say, we lost count of how much time we spent with the whale sharks, how many individual whale sharks (there were more than just those three!) we saw and how many drops we had :)
Just completely WOW!
Glorious day today again! We started our Whale Shark Adventure by swimming with four manta rays.
They were circling, feeding, rolling and swooping by us as we snorkelled with them. These were some of the most interactive manta rays we've had yet and everyone had incredible encounters. It was hard to pull ourselves away from the mantas, but we knew we had to get back on the boat to go find some whale sharks!
We swam with three different whale sharks today. They were all relatively small - between 3.5 to 4.5m - though one was far fatter than one would expect from his length! Each of the three was feeding with mouth nice and wide and they were each swimming nice and slowly. We love slow whale sharks! Hard to believe after the excellent manta rays earlier in the day, but we think the swims with the whale sharks were at least as good, if not even better!
On our way back up the coast we were accompanied by quite a few humpbacks and we could see more off in the distance, too. Our best unexpected sight today was an orca (aka killer whale)! It popped up pretty close to some of the humpback whales and the humpbacks were not too keen about the newcomer. The humpbacks hit the accelerator and zoomed up the reef and out of sight.
Another awesome day out here at Exmouth Diving Centre!
