Thanks, bowl!!
cayal - LOL I don't get to dive very often it seems, but I've been trying my best to get out finally this month. I'm quasi-retired mostly (I'm also a professional photographer who only takes select commissions: read: I don't work that often LOL) after working my tail off for 17+ years in the industry so now I'm making a point to enjoy all of the things I worked so hard to make sure visitors to the Ningaloo Reef enjoyed!!
No diving today, but grabbed a friend and headed out for another snorkel. Needed someone to protect me from the circling lemon sharks. Who weren't there today. Or who weren't there in numbers or vision range, at least!! It was a blast: so many turtles, whiptail rays (at least two types), cowtail rays (again, at least two types), grey reef sharks, a couple of skittish lemon sharks, schools of this that and the other, shovelnose rays everywhere including a couple of huge ones. Tide turned while we were out so need to plan to get out a bit earlier next time. Doubt I'll get out tomorrow as the wind is meant to come in pretty hard so will probably blow conditions all to hell and they weren't that great today. At one point there were 12+ big rays (cowtails & whiptails) + 9 shovelnose all snoozing on the sand together. Awesome!!
Best find of the day: juvenile queensland groper!!
Here's a shovelnose & some groupies
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cayal - LOL I don't get to dive very often it seems, but I've been trying my best to get out finally this month. I'm quasi-retired mostly (I'm also a professional photographer who only takes select commissions: read: I don't work that often LOL) after working my tail off for 17+ years in the industry so now I'm making a point to enjoy all of the things I worked so hard to make sure visitors to the Ningaloo Reef enjoyed!!
No diving today, but grabbed a friend and headed out for another snorkel. Needed someone to protect me from the circling lemon sharks. Who weren't there today. Or who weren't there in numbers or vision range, at least!! It was a blast: so many turtles, whiptail rays (at least two types), cowtail rays (again, at least two types), grey reef sharks, a couple of skittish lemon sharks, schools of this that and the other, shovelnose rays everywhere including a couple of huge ones. Tide turned while we were out so need to plan to get out a bit earlier next time. Doubt I'll get out tomorrow as the wind is meant to come in pretty hard so will probably blow conditions all to hell and they weren't that great today. At one point there were 12+ big rays (cowtails & whiptails) + 9 shovelnose all snoozing on the sand together. Awesome!!
Best find of the day: juvenile queensland groper!!
Here's a shovelnose & some groupies
panasonic TS3