divegirl

We went out to Fairy Bower today to try and spot some dusky whalers. We’ve seen one on a previous dive but it was quite far in poor visibility. Lots of people have reported seeing them but we hadn’t had a really good encounter as yet.

We went in mid-morning. The visibility was quite good, atleast over 10 meters. We didn’t have to venture out far and we saw 3 straight away. They were only juveniles, about 1 metre in length. One of them had a hook in the corner of its mouth. They were stunning. We headed left of the beach and swam to an area that had a sandy bottom, and we just sat and waited. There were some blue morwongs and juvenile snapper scavenging around the weeds. And then the sharks came, the same three, cruising by us. It was amazing. I thought I would be scared but I wasn’t and I didn’t feel afraid either. It was just such a majectic experience.

It was a great dive and we saw lots of interesting fish. The visibility was great and the dive was a nice easy relaxed dive. There was some great photo opportunities (wish we had the G9), there was one in particular where I was on the bottom looking up at a swimmer (we were only in about 3m of water) and 2 duskies swam directly underneath him – awesome!

We went back in the afternoon and hubby thought he saw 7 sharks in one go. I only saw 4 at most.

But perhaps the best sighting of the day was… Valerie Taylor, prominent Australian shark and underwater expert. I felt so silly because I got quite excited being so close to an underwater world celebrity.