Day 70. Goodbye Guinjata

Going to miss sitting on the porch watching the humpbacks breach. Half an hour till the boys drive us to the airport!

Day 69. Last dive

Beatiful last dive at a shallow site called Egypt, just off Paindane beach. Saw a manta, bull ray, blue spotted stingray, general electric ray and two horn bill turtles!! Also did my part and picked up some rubbish (: turned out to make a lovely handbag!

Day 68 A Day in the Life: Guinjata Bay Mozambique

A short video by Andrew Maloney of me breathhold diving and a whale shark! 

http://vimeo.com/m/106118907

Day 66. Whale Sharks

On our way back from a morning dive on Manta Reef we came across two whale sharks! The larger one was approximately 13m long. These gentle giants let us swim with them for about an hour. Truly the best morning of my life (:

Thanks Guinjata Dive Centre Mozambique for this wonderful experience!!! Footage to follow

    Swimming with the slightly smaller                    whale shark,Guinjata Bay.

        Photo credit: Stephen Hemstalk 

     Swimming with a 13m whale shark! 

       Photo credit: Stephen Hemstalk

      Diving down to the whale shark

          Photo credit: Jack Austin 

Day 62

Our research is drawing to a close and we have started to compile the data. Amoung other finds one of the more worrying is that of the devil rays caught over the last 2months in the Guinjata area 71% have been female and of that 83% have been pregnant. More stats to follow.
On a happier note I unexpectably met a nurse shark in a cave on my dive yesterday and swam with a giant manta (5m wing span) on my dive this morning.  
(Footage to follow)

Day 56

Me lying next to a Silky Shark. I'm about 6 foot so you can see how big some of these sharks are! This catch consisted of a small zebra shark, two large silky shark (3m and larger) and a reef shark.

Photo credit: Francesca Trotman