Fie goes downunder

Start with scrolling down to part one if you haven't allready done that. That way you can see the entire trip.



After Monkey Mia we continued towards Shark Bay. We stopped on the way at Hamelin pool to look at the Stromatolites, the oldest form of life as we know it. That was quite interesting. Stromatolites can only be found in about three places in the world now, Australia beeing one of those places.

In the evening, we arrived at Coral Bay and I was quite tired of sitting in the bus. All I could think of was the next day, when we were going to snorkel with manta rays. I played some pool in the evening with my taiwanese friend Wendy, but she completley thrased me, she was really good and it's not very hard to be better then me haha.



This is the day that I had been waiting for, the manta ray snorkel.

First we got to swim with some fish so I will show you some pictures of that first. The crew on the boat had underwater cameras so they took some pictures of us swimming around with the fish.

The coral was spectacular as you can see.







This is a manta ray. They are completley harmless and live of plankton and other particles from the sea. They have an average of a four meter wing-span so they can get quite big. In the picture, the manta ray is doing a rolling motion, that is what they do when they are feeding. The fish that are stuck to the manta ray are there to clean it.

Watching these fascinating creatures was such an adrenalin rush, when they came up towards you with their mouths open (allthough they have no teeth), all you could hear in the water was your heart beating faster and faster.



We allso got to see some dolphins, this is a baby dolphin with it's mother :)

That is infact about all the photos this computer can handle in one go, so more pic's tomorrow I belive.