Oh Wow!
After 2 weeks of straight work (more or less) we got a few days off.
If you are working on a boat in dirty water, swimming is the biggest temptation.
And swimming we went…with aliens.
The locals call them gentle giants.
I am still completely spiked by my SECOND ever diving experience, so please excuse my completely exaggerated description of these calm creatures.
Everybody probably knows that i am talking about whale sharks, if not, well you do now 😀
The Place is Osob, the time some where after 4h of bus ride with 3 babies, we are happy to see clean sea.
There is some minor trouble with finding a place to seep but everything turns out fine.
We do some afternoon diving, to get some water on our dirty, dust encrusted skin.
Plans are made to get up before the ticket office opens… we don’t want to pay 1000 Piso (25$) for diving with the sharks.
It turns out we don’t stand a chance against the wakeup-skills of the workers.
So we have buy tickets for a 30min dive (in the end we were granted a full hour, so basically until we were exhausted 🙂 )
And it is indescribable!
See for yourself!
people waiting for the sharks to arrive
first contact
gentle giants floating under water
so exiting
they are not dangerous or scary just beautyful
like aliens or space ships
me and 1st mate zach
vacuumcleaning the surface
RiRi completely facinated
how couldn’t you
sharks and mermaids
find the turtle
the expedition? successful!
I really enjoyed this trip.
It was very nice, because even though there were many people in boats only a few were snorkeling and none except for us were free diving. So the 8m of water were basically left to us and the amazing animals. Whale sharks, Turtles and Fishes who also wanted to be fed.
Obviously one has to weigh the negative consequences this feeding spot has. Â We had a short briefing about how we should behave around them, and there is a fine for actively touching them.
I guess they are doing what they can to support and protect the (whale) sharks, as you can still get shark-fin-soup in the Philippines.
But Whale Sharks are normally migrating animals which don’t stay stationary in the same territory.
Here they are domesticated and harvested as a tourist attraction.
The feeding ground attracts more sharks each year, so i hope it doesn’t have a bad ecological influence.
But like in all places that attract many people, i can completely understand every single person who came here!
Because I really enjoyed it.
I am exited what else is there to come!
So long
Ole