Humpback whales!

OK, we had the bestest day ever cos not only did we get to snorkel with turtles, swim with WHALESHARKS, see big manta rays, but we also got to see some humpback whales. And some people don't even get to see one of these creatures on some trips, it all depends on if the animals decide to show up or not. But we think that God just blessed us for travelling a billion kms to get there just to see a whaleshark and we swam with not one, but TWO different whalesharks.

So we started the day by snorkelling near the reef and seeing turtles and heaps of cool colourful fish. Then we were lucky and had a couple of hours in the water with the whale shark. The boat drops us in front and then we wait for the shark to swim past us and then we swim with it. The first drop was the best cos we didn't know what to expect but there was this huge but gentle and very beautiful creature just gracefully swimming around not at all concerned about some crazy nosey snorkellers.

Then when everyone was exhausted we had a very late lunch then headed off for another snorkel with whatever was on the water when we spotted some humpbacks so we followed them for a while. Then our skipper decided to look for manta rays and instead we found a second and different whale shark so back in the water we went.

Michelle dropped in and saw all the other snorkellers in the distance and thought she was in the wrong place and was looking under the water for a fish when she looked down and realised that the whale shark was underneath her about 4m, she had a slight panic attack for wanting to get out of his way but once out of his way she was once again in awe cos this shark was bigger than the first!

Then after shark 2 we did spot some manta rays but they skitted away too fast to swim with so we enjoyed them from the boat!

This is the Ningaloo reef.

Humpbacks!

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