ITS TRYING TO EAT ME!!!
Alright to set the day up for this tale of horror, it actually started last night. We are sitting at the dive shop like we normally do when it is raining. We chatted with one of the full time staff about assisting a course tomorrow and were told that there was a course being taught in Dutch in the morning but not to worry since no one talks underwater. Well unless you are Maryanne and think the best way to get my attention is to yell at me! Okay that only happened once and she was pissed at me 🙂 The catch to working in the morning is that the boat might be too full for me to get on since they saw whale sharks that day. Most people who miss out usually sign up to dive the next morning in hopes the big fish will still be there. Unfortunately they usually aren’t. Anyway we decide to go home early since we had to get up and dive. Well that night it was really windy and rainy, I was half expecting the door to blow open it was that bad! Needless to say I didn’t get much sleep 🙁 So when the alarm went off at 0615 I was not looking forward to getting out of bed. But I did even though I knew I may or may not dive, which sucks cause who in their right mind would wake up that early if they didn’t have to. So we slowly got ready and dragged ourself to the dive shop. It was a little chilly and cloudy, not a day I really want to dive in. When we get there, we find out that we can’t assist but the dive master said she would sneak us on the boat. Cause she loves us! So we get on the boat and straight away the captain is telling us that the Whale Sharks are at the site we are going to. So we are all excited of course! We were the first ones in the water and there it was swimming near the surface. So beautiful! It didn’t stay long, but we enjoyed the rest of the dive and then saw it again doing our safety stop at the end of the dive. Back on the boat everyone is all excited chatting away. Since we have seen them already we were like yeah there cool, last time was better blah blah 🙂 Inside our heads we were really having a party. The staff decides to stay for another dive, fine with us. Again we are the first in the water and there it is again. Same thing as before we watched from a distance, amazing. Then we go for a little dive, but Maryanne’s dive watch says we have to go up after only 30 min boy was I sad. As we are approaching the boat, we are the only ones at the surface. I happen to look in the water and there it is between us and the boat. So we stay and watch, well apparently we looked cool to the Whale Shark and it comes for a closer look. When I mean close, I mean I was touching a whale shark! Only because it was interested in Maryanne and swinging it tail in my face!! This thing is about 3.5 meters long WOW we have never been this close. This think is really interested in us and wants to be right on us. After chasing Maryanne for a bit, it turns its attention on me. I comes right for me, mouth open and I literally had to put my hand on its nose to not get eaten. This happened more than once for about 10 min. What an experience! Oh and I really did pop my head out of the water and said to Maryanne “Its trying to EAT ME!!” Wow what a morning! I am so glad we got out of bed!! YIIPPEEE
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Sure do “Miss” you two! You are nothing short of amazing. Glad all is going well.
Look forward to the next chapter.
Love Mom
Any pictures of the whale sharks?
Love u , MOM
hehehehehehe! How cool wish you had some pics of that! I’m am seriously living vicariously through you two.
lots of love from doha postoffice
marie 🙂