whale shark!@

// January 27th, 2005 // Honduras

well i finished my open water scuba diving course today… it was great. two beautiful dives… finally got to just swim around and look at all the crazy fish… which i have no idea what the names are so i cant tell you what i saw… we did see though, a baracuda, a green moray (sp?) eel, blue tangs, parrot fish, some other fish about 3 feet big… crazy!

the coolest thing though, we swam next to a whale shark… between our two dives, we went out looking for them,though its out of season, we got really lucky…. supposedly our boat drive is the best on the island and he saw a bunch of tuna splashing at the surface…. which generally means theres a 75% chance there’s a whaleshark near…. we boated oover there and it was right off the side of the boat… we were already ready with our snorkle equipment on and i jumped in first…. it was within about 2-3 feet of us… stayed around for about 30 seconds then swam away… in terms of whale sharks, it was small - medium… about 20-25 feet or so…. though they get huge and dwarf the boat we were on…

i wasn’t able to have a camera (an underwater one anyways) as we were still “in training” so i didnt get a picture… though this one i found online is pretty close to the correct size….

whale shark