It was my turn today!!!! Swam with a whale shark!!!
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Oh wow!!! My fun diving day in Tiran turned out pretty fine in the end. I will skip straight to the end of the day first though, because I had the most wonderful experience of swimming with a whale shark!!!! We were on our way back from two lovely dives (had a biiiig eagle ray on one and on the second, we had Jackson reef to ourselves, which is quite a rarity in itself). As we passed Ras Nasrani, we got the shout from Tariq our skipper that there was a big shark ahead!! So out we all leapt to the bow to see whether it was actually a whale shark, and yes it was. Well that was our cue, back we ran to the dive deck, rummaged through all our neatly packed boxes for masks and fins etc and threw ourselves into the blue with the grace of a herd of elephants (hmmm cue reference to my previous career there!). And then our out-of-this-world experience began. Steve and I basically flanked this quite small (4M) whale shark and swam with it for around ten or fifteen minutes!! At one point I duck dived down beside it and it actually turned to face me, looked at me, and opened it’s mouth (was that a smile???). How beautiful it was. What a wonderful end to a wonderful day. |