On one of our first snorkels I was about to dive down to take a look at something when I heard someone call out 'Shark!'. I turned and two feet behind me a metre and a half long reef shark was swimming by. I started swimming as fast as I could. My little chicken legs pumping and my arms splashing about as fast as they could, but damn, there was no way I could keep up with him and he swam off into the distance.
The turtles were a little easier to keep up with. They can swim fast when they want to, but they've kind of got this blase, 'yeah whatever' kind of attitude. You swim up close and they don't care, they don't leave, they don't pay any attention to you either; they just keep on being a turtle and just doing what turtles do.
Penguins are like the reef sharks, you don't have a hope in hell of keeping up with one. Sea lions would be the same except they are curious creatures and like to play. So they'll come up and check you out.
Penguins mini torpedoes and sea lions a little curious.
Admittedly we didn't see a lot of reef sharks while snorkelling and we would have loved to see more penguins and sea lions, but in all the snorkelling was pretty good. The mix of warm and cool currents made it a bit of a mystery everyday as to what the water would be like. Would it be warm or cool? What would the visibility be like? How tough would the current be?
Out of the water the number of tortoises, marine iguanas, land iguanas, birds of all sorts and sea lions we saw was fantastic. I was averaging about 300-500 photos a day. So you're probably lucky that it takes too long to upload them and I can't put lots up!
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| Land iguana |
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| Blue-footed boobie |
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| Our boat, the 'Angelito' |
1 comment:
at least now we have the technology to see all ur photo's on the TV, sitting on the comfy couch instead of all of us standing up crowded around a computer screen trying to get a look in like last time!
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