Day 47.

After a morning dive with Guinjata Dive Centre at Manta Reef (one of the top 10 dive sites in the world) I was so happy. I had seen a black tip reef shark and it was the first live shark I had seen in a long while. Feeling content we began the 20 minute boat ride home. As we started to drive past coconut bay we noticed a lot of commotion on the beach. We drew closer and my heart fell. Sharks. We beached the boat and walked up the beach. There were 11 dead sharks, caught by long lines that morning. The boat had only just landed (10:40am). We had none of our equipment with us only cameras so we took photos and videos of all the species and notes down sex and estimated size. 

      Black tip reef shark aprox 2.8m 

         Photo credit: Monica Phung

        Zoë sexing a juvenile Tiger Shark

         Photo credit: Monica Phung

         Two Scalloped Hammerheads

           Photo credit: Monica Phung

Three sharks were also caught at Paindane at 11:00am. Altogether 14 sharks were caught on 15km stretch of beach in one day.