Been a week since I posted..that's not cool. Been busy...lots of stuff happening.
Stanley and I took a trip down the coast Friday night for a short trip and I finally got around to doing the shark dive at Beqa yesterday morning. Was more incredible a dive than I could have ever imagined. Without starting a debate over whether this is a good thing to be interacting with sharks in this manner, I walked away (or swam away, in this case) with a new found respect for them.
To be surrounded by such an abundance of sea life from the sharks to the giant trevally to the enormous grouper that showed up at the end, what a way to spend a morning. On the shark side of things, a gang of lemon sharks and nurse sharks made up much of the first dive while the second one introduced a bunch of ultra-fast grey tips, white tips, black tips and then the almighty bulls. The bulls are the meanest looking of the bunch and look to be always on the verge of insanity. At one point, a single bull changed direction quickly and looked my way. My air reserves depleted at a much faster rate.
A huge "vinaka" to Boris from Waidroka for leading me on the trip as well as the crew from AquaTrek Fiji for filming and who, once again, have shown me an incredible time underwater. The dive was so well organised and the thanks goes to these operators.
Video clip below of my dive put together via footage from AquaTrek. If you dive, you absolutely need to think about doing this trip. [update: I added some sound...the soundless version seemed to be missing something but if you'd prefer that, it's available by turning off your speakers.][update 2: sound back off...was seeing problems with this file but will aim to get it back up.]
