I wasn’t anticipating this wakeup call at all. It woke me up and I wasn’t a happy camper – 5:45am came way too soon. Lora and I slowly made our way downstairs for some tea before the dive brief. Back upstairs Sam walked us through the lay of the land and it was a fairly basic trip – down to the blocks – 0 degrees – circle a large reef and then head back a slightly different way to check out some turtles. We followed the course pretty close except on the way back we left the reef at a different spot than we should have and ended up about 15 meters off course but not too bad. While going around the reef we came upon a white tip shark and I swam in close for some footage that turned out pretty good. On the way back we saw another white tip as well (could have been the same one possibly) and I went in for some more footage. Right before we were back to the boat we stumbled onto a turtle that was eating and it was time for some extreme closeup shots. I was just a few inches from the turtles mouth as he was chomping down on some coral – as he switched spots I repositioned myself for a better shot and I’m pretty sure once I put it up on my YouTube that National Geographic will be emailing me to buy the rights – not before a little bidding war breaks out with the Discovery Channel though. Well okay, it was a bit shaky but so far I think it was my best footage of the trip.
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBVr_LN4Mrw
After the dive we had some beans and sausage for brekky and went back for some more sausage for seconds – Lora got 4 and I only got 3 which is just crazy. After the food was gone, we had about an hour to kill before the next dive which was spent largely on the sun deck just relaxing.
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