After a lazy breakfast we organised ourselves a snorkel tour to swim with the sharks. We have done this before, but this was a half day tour as opposed to a full day and sounded a bit different. It would be hard to match our last experience but we thought we would give it a go.
Whizzing out and around the bays we came to a very small island, our group of eight hopped off the boat down some precarious steps and into water thigh deep. It wasn't until I was in the water snorkelling around that I realised that I still had my clothes on over my togs. I put it down to excitement and not at all to dementia.
There was a web of thick ropes with buoys hanging off them and we all put our heads under and hung on to the rope. There were plenty of beautiful fish and stingrays but only a few sharks at that stage. The stingrays came right up to us nudging us out of the way, they are like thick velvet.
The ropes provided a sort of pathway around the area we pulled ourselves around we found that there was quite a swift current tugging at us. I have never seen such an array of tropical fish, of course they were coming in to be fed, but they were beautiful and plentiful. More sharks start to arrive and then the feeding frenzy began at one stage a shark came straight at me and I quickly whipped my fingers off the rope in case it thought they were tasty. At the time it it quite sureal that we were in the water with these creatures. Lance said "you need to take everything that you think you know about sharks and throw it out the window". The guy who was doing the feeding was free diving down and around the fish for long periods of time, even tempting a moray eel out of its hidey hole. The whole thing was great, and very different to what we have done previously.
We had booked the tour at the Sofitel and totally recommend it. Five stars from us.
At dinner we met up with a couple who had been on the tour with us, Steve and Sonia are from Los Angeles. We had a buffet that was okay, but were treated to a life musical performance from a young and very talented woman who appeared to be a bit famous around these parts.
We went off home after another relaxing day.
People
The people are a mix of French and English speaking tourists of a variety of ages. On the beach there are some beautiful bodies, with a couple of gorgeous topless bathers. There are also some who make Lance and I feel quite healthy. And all I can say is that anything that I have on show is what I was born with or I grew myself. Perfectly home grown, that's us.
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