Hello World, how's the serenity in your neck of the woods?
Out here on Ningaloo reef by Exmouth today it was punctuated by many thousands of jellyfish stings but more of that later.
Today we were picked up from the 'ecocean' house by King's Ningaloo Reef Tours. They did a great job in organising our day and our whale shark encounters. We were dropped on 5 different sharks today on 7 occasions. and had some great swims, tomorrow in the lab we will be looking in more depth at the photographs and trying to match them with previous sightings or identify new sharks.
Today we also trawled for plankton where the whale sharks were feeding, we will be analysing this in the lab tomorrow as well and will hopefully be able to upload photographs.
As I said earlier King's tours did great job dropping us over some great sharks, the first two were a touch rapid and were difficult to keep up with but all was well after that until we dropped into the largest jellyfish swarm I have ever seen ....... pass the vinegar.
After that we had some seriously good sharks including one with an entire reef worth of fish as an entourage.
On the way back in we also encountered turtles, a spinner shark, dugong and three dolphins, we also encountered a young and inquisitive whale shark who surfaced by the boat and stuck around for a few minutes for a photocall, so another great day on Ningaloo reef.
Richie
Out here on Ningaloo reef by Exmouth today it was punctuated by many thousands of jellyfish stings but more of that later.
Today we were picked up from the 'ecocean' house by King's Ningaloo Reef Tours. They did a great job in organising our day and our whale shark encounters. We were dropped on 5 different sharks today on 7 occasions. and had some great swims, tomorrow in the lab we will be looking in more depth at the photographs and trying to match them with previous sightings or identify new sharks.
Today we also trawled for plankton where the whale sharks were feeding, we will be analysing this in the lab tomorrow as well and will hopefully be able to upload photographs.
As I said earlier King's tours did great job dropping us over some great sharks, the first two were a touch rapid and were difficult to keep up with but all was well after that until we dropped into the largest jellyfish swarm I have ever seen ....... pass the vinegar.
After that we had some seriously good sharks including one with an entire reef worth of fish as an entourage.
On the way back in we also encountered turtles, a spinner shark, dugong and three dolphins, we also encountered a young and inquisitive whale shark who surfaced by the boat and stuck around for a few minutes for a photocall, so another great day on Ningaloo reef.
Richie
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