Requins

It just isn’t that scary without the music. This morning I decided to go to a new beach cuz I don’t want the old beach to become too ordinary… so I went to the complete opposite side of the motu; there the water’s a lot shallower- about half a meter at its deepest, and is full of coral; making it almost like a maze. It’s the place where the motu is closest to the outlying reef, so I decided to snorkel out there today and see what was so great about it.

So I’m about half way there, admiring all the fishes, Ooh…fishes. Fish-es. I turned to my left and about 3 meters away- Ooh, it’s a shark. and then turn back to the fishes. And cue the jaws tune. See, without the warning music, it’s just a big fish, until the information reaches your brain, you do a double take and your eyes get about as big as grapefruits, or paumplemousses- whichever sounds sillier.

I watched it while it swam off in the distance, and it was actually pretty cool. It was a small black tipped shark- probably around 70 or 80 cm long. Its amazing that they come to such shallow parts, cuz that water wasn’t more than 30 cm deep. It made another pass right in front of me, the closest it came was about a meter away, but it completely ignored me and swam off to the left, with a bright yellow fish silhouetted against its chest. Then, of course, my mask fogged up and my stupid snorkel tube broke, and I stepped on spiky coral and got bitten by mosquitoes… but at least I had a close encounter with a sharrk.

Ok, so this is a ray. But I already posted a shark photo and one’s all I got. So say hi to ray the ray.