We were lucky enough to be in Exmouth in May when the Whale Sharks swim around the Ningaloo Reef. We forked over the rather extravagant fee and went out on a day snorkel trip with a company Ningaloo Blue. It turned out to be some of the best money we have spent so far! Some days the boats and spotter planes wait all day to find the biggest fish in the ocean, but the day we went the plane took off at 10am and spotted the first whale shark at 10:15am.
We were suited up, and been for a trial run with our snorkel. I’m smiling wide but was secretly somewhat scared about getting in the water with the whale sharks which can be up to 18m long.
We were lucky enough to spot 6 different sharks for the day and we swam with five of them. The largest we saw was estimated at 9m.
At one point we were swimming with a smaller shark and suddenly an 8m shark emerged from the depths with his big wide mouth open. It looked briefly like Lachlan might be mistaken for plankton!
While on the boat we also spotted Pilot Whales.
Many flying fish – yes this is actually a fish... They jump out of the water and race away with fins flapping.
And Lachlan pranced about on the deck pretending the boat was actually his.
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