Friday, December 9, 2011

Swimming With the Whale Sharks








Hi everyone,
The other day we went swimming with the whale sharks.  They are almost the largest sharks in the world (I believe there is one bigger one, Mega Mouth), but they are very slow, docile and harmless.  They eat krill, not humans, so we weren't scared.  Well, not much anyway.  Sharon got so close to one that she had to back off to keep it from touching her.  At one point, it turned and came at her, mouth first, Wow!

They hang around La Paz, in the shallow water.  There were also a lot of manta rays there.  It was really something.

It was hard to get good pictures, but here are some of the better ones.